Postmodern Trendoid III wrote on May 21
st, 2013 at 7:38pm:
There must be something I am missing. What was your question again?
polite_gandalf wrote on May 21
st, 2013 at 12:44pm:
so how do you think the trendies could have displayed more "foresight" Misty? Demand that muslims be banned from expressing their democratic right to protest peacefully?
My point is, we have a group of muslims exercising their democratic right to peacefully protest, and your response is, the "left-wing trendies" display no foresight. So what should they have done? Does allowing this protest to go ahead mean they necessarily agree with their point of view? No. Does it mean they can, and do criticise their anti-gay views? Absolutely.
freediver wrote on May 21
st, 2013 at 8:27pm:
That's true. They prefer to ignore the elephant in the room an deflect to tangential issues, or insist it is intolerant or vilification to talk about the intolerance.
Thats may be true in some instances, but broadly speaking I don't believe its the case. What you people fail to acknowledge is that there is a very fine line between attacking people for their views, and being outright prejudice and discriminatory to those people. But to say these "lefties" never criticise muslims, or any other minority, for expressing bigoted views - is complete nonsense.
And by the way, peacefully protesting against gay marriage is not inherently islamophobic or bigoted - and its certainly not confined to the islamic community.