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Crumpy-Gunt · 08-21-2016, 05:00 PM

Maybe we should make another thread to prove this point, that we are far more tolerant of generalizing certain groups than we are of being generalized. People are so quick to jump up and say 'I'm an individual, I had nothing to do with that event across the globe or in history' - but they love holding all people acountable for the actions of their race/religion. How about if someone was combining and collecting all of the doings of the western/christian world from colonialism to genocide to slavery to the largest scale and bloodiest wars this planet has ever seen leaving probably near a billion people dead cumulatively. Not to mention dropping a nuclear weapon on a few hundred thousand civilians - and relating it back to the fact they are christians or white. People wouldnt accept that.

Maybe we will call the thread the failure of the world to deal with white males.

See how the proud white christian males feel about being generalized as rapists, theives, enslavers and general assorted scum who gained their wealth through the poverty and demise of hundreds of millions of 'lower' people.

I have a feeling nobody would stand for it because it wouldnt be fair to define such a large group of people by the decisions and actions of relatively few individuals. Yet more christians and whites were implicitly involved in those events then muslims are involved in terrorism by percentage - but we love generalizing them.

We are fine with making fun of native americans on this board and making claims like moderate muslims dont exist, ie they are by and large all extremists and that a western military clash with the RELIGION of Islam is inevitable. On top of that people are sitting around crying about their illusion that "Islam is not open for criticism" when in fact it has been open season on Muslims and Arabs since 9/11. How much more open for criticism can people be when we're depicting their religious leaders with bombs on their heads, banning their religious attire and publicly shaming them to the point many are changing their names.

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Crumpy-Gunt Lifetime Suspension Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: 403 Exp:	Maybe we should make another thread to prove this point, that we are far more tolerant of generalizing certain groups than we are of being generalized. People are so quick to jump up and say 'I'm an individual, I had nothing to do with that event across the globe or in history' - but they love holding all people acountable for the actions of their race/religion. How about if someone was combining and collecting all of the doings of the western/christian world from colonialism to genocide to slavery to the largest scale and bloodiest wars this planet has ever seen leaving probably near a billion people dead cumulatively. Not to mention dropping a nuclear weapon on a few hundred thousand civilians - and relating it back to the fact they are christians or white. People wouldnt accept that. Maybe we will call the thread the failure of the world to deal with white males. See how the proud white christian males feel about being generalized as rapists, theives, enslavers and general assorted scum who gained their wealth through the poverty and demise of hundreds of millions of 'lower' people. I have a feeling nobody would stand for it because it wouldnt be fair to define such a large group of people by the decisions and actions of relatively few individuals. Yet more christians and whites were implicitly involved in those events then muslims are involved in terrorism by percentage - but we love generalizing them. We are fine with making fun of native americans on this board and making claims like moderate muslims dont exist, ie they are by and large all extremists and that a western military clash with the RELIGION of Islam is inevitable. On top of that people are sitting around crying about their illusion that "Islam is not open for criticism" when in fact it has been open season on Muslims and Arabs since 9/11. How much more open for criticism can people be when we're depicting their religious leaders with bombs on their heads, banning their religious attire and publicly shaming them to the point many are changing their names. Last edited by Crumpy-Gunt; 08-21-2016 at 05:17 PM.