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LGBTQ+ rights are under attack across the world.
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With the rampant increase of Anti LGBTQ+ hate crimes, speech and laws internationally, the LGBTQ community globally no longer feels safe.
We refuse to stand by while injustice against our community reigns.
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I don't buy that. The comment is in response to this article. Generalising it doesn't make it less prejudice. That's like saying it's not antisemitic to walk into a* synagogue and start shouting about how all religion is evil.
The comment about religion is on an article about a religious person, yes. I guess OP could have gone and found a different article that specifically mentions a different religion in the headline, but that would have been prejudiced against that particular religion, yeah? What are we supposed to just pussyfoot around any naming of any specific religion?
The US doesn't have an anti-christianity issue, it has an anti-islam issue.
That's true! However, the USA does have a Christian Nationalist problem, and the merging of religion and state is a big problem. That's what I thought the commenter was saying; merging religion and the state is bad.
I think it's good that you're watchful for Islamophobia, genuinely, because it's really common and it is a real problem. It's a huge problem over here in the UK, too. I don't think this is a case of Islamophobia, and I don't think it's helpful to treat Islam with kid gloves just because people often disproportionately criticise Islam for all sorts of disingenuous reasons.
The reason, to me, it comes across as islamophobia is that the article has nothing whatsoever to do with her faith, apart from where she's talked about facing similar marginalisation for her identity. So the OC espousing a stance against the merging of religion and state just comes across as "muslims shouldn't hold office" as it relates to this post, this article and this woman. She very literally talks about islamophobia she's faced in life, and OC just turns around and tries to argue she shouldn't be an elected representative, how is that not prejudice?
The last thing we need is TWO shitty fundamentalist religions battling it out.
No, it isn't. You're just being reactionary.
You made up a completely separate scenario that involves an individual going to a specific location to target a specific group of people.
In this scenario, a person saw a random article in their feed that happens to mention the legislator's faith. And that person commented generally on all faith (but especially Abrahamic faiths) being dangerous.
They didn't seek out an article about muslims to target muslims.
If the article was about a Jewish legislator or Christian legislator where their faith is directly mentioned in the headline, the comment's intent and meaning would remain identical.
"I saw a random place of worship and wandered right in."
That's just intellectual dishonesty. Stop coping and grow up.
I'm the one coping? You managed to be that upset at me you replied in two different comment chains.
Ironic and hypocritical that you would call me out for something you did in the same comment chains.
stop coping and grow up.
me when I can't argue anything of substance against the smarter person but I still want to be willfully ignorant and keep doing the stupid shit I'm doing
#iamverysmart
the smarter person
:3 "i can't win an argument with substance so instead I'll just have my friends come defend me with memes"
ok pal. love u.
I dont even know Norah but she clearly made a more substantive argument, that you just accused of "intellectual dishonesty" and declared yourself the "smarter" person, get some perspective lol
Did she? Did she make a substantive argument? Pretty sure she just said some stupid shit comparing intentionally walking into a specific place of worship with an article being in someone's feed. They're not really comparable for, well, a LOT of reasons. So no, she didn't say anything substantive to me.
Yes she did. She did make a substantive argument. Pretty sure she just said some clever shit comparing intentionally walking into a specific place of worship with intentionally walking into a specific article in someone’s feed. They’re really comparable for, well, a LOT of reasons. So yes, she did say something substantive to me.
Hang on, gotta triple comment because holy shit this is just staggering.
If you think deliberately physically transporting yourself to a location to enact a show of hatred is the same as leaving a comment on an article that popped into your feed is, in ANY WAY comparable, that means you are too chronically online. Those are just not comparable things, and to act like they are makes you delusional.
Well I was just trying to mirror how "substantive" your comments are but, if you think deliberately physically transporting yourself to a location to enact a show of hatred is not the same as deliberately physically opening an article about a muslim person that popped into your feed to enact a show of hatred is, in ANY WAY incomparable, that means you are too chronically online. Those are very comparable things, and to act like they are not makes you delusional.
delusional rambling and elementary school level rhetoric that makes you look even dumber
ok bud
"Intentionally walking into a specific article in someone's feed" 😭 holy shit get a grip
lol. ok bud.
big all [minority] people know each other energy
Cry more. What minority group, trans? Same, sister! So maybe why don't you keep to relevant arguments, maybe?
You're the one that assumed a fellow Blahajian was my friend ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah for sure, I totally believe that you two don't know each other lol. Good cover!
There's like 10k users on blahaj, besides I thought you were very smart?
Btw, let me be clear:
I'm not smart.
Just smarter relative to you.
Sure, sure, whatever you say.
i miss u can we end on good terms
Thank you.
Yes, the fact that you're from the same instance is why I think you two know each other. Not the fact that you're both active at the same time, responding to me in tandem, and going several comments deep in different comment threads to defend each other against me. How many comments deep were we when your friend responded to me the first time, again?
Why, pray tell, would I bother? I was already shitposting in response to you. I think you just have a highly inflated ego 🤭
For sure.
Two people online at the same time disagreeing with you?? Even though you are soooooo much smarter?? Why it's a conspiracy I tells ya!
Or maybe you're the dumbest person here. Certainly the loudest. Are you by chance a CS major?
lol