Because getting your head chopped off only hurts if it is done by black people, or a white man in black (I mean Muslim) clothing....
polite_gandalf wrote on Nov 17
th, 2014 at 12:01pm:
Islamophobia always has and always will be about "race"
White muslims don't get picked on - unless they have highly visible "racial" markers (hijab, muslim robe etc).
Come to think of it, FD's hysterics about the way "rage boy" naturally looked horrible and vile because he had a big nose and other "non-white" features - was rather telling.
polite_gandalf wrote on Nov 17
th, 2014 at 10:46am:
freediver wrote on Nov 16
th, 2014 at 4:11pm:
Meanwhile, the good Muslims are on here explaining
why they cannot tolerate white people having freedom of speech
, in case they mock Muhammed.
Yes that is an interesting thing to bring up.
FD, why do you mention white people? Can you quote any "good Muslims... on here" railing against white people?
polite_gandalf wrote on Nov 17
th, 2014 at 11:29am:
Breaking: white man wakes up and spends his day enjoying his inherited privilege.
polite_gandalf wrote on Nov 17
th, 2014 at 11:37am:
ian wrote on Nov 17
th, 2014 at 11:31am:
And what does this inherited privelege entitle the white man to?
lecture everyone about how morally superior he is to the lazy, dirty blackies - apparently.
polite_gandalf wrote on Nov 17
th, 2014 at 12:13pm:
ian wrote on Nov 17
th, 2014 at 11:44am:
well come on Gandalf, if all you have is snide remarks with no basis in reality then you have nothing.
Oh I do apologise - the thread was going so well since you started it with your - totally not snyde at all - opening post.
But I'm not going to waste my time explaining to the likes of you how the cycle of poverty and underprivilege perpetuates its way so destructively through generations, and how publicly funded "leg up" programs are not only morally justified, but are eminently sensible social and economic policies that benefit the entire nation. No, not to you - not to someone who doesn't know the meaning of underprivilege, and who will never experience a day of it - not because (as you will no doubt lecture us all) because of all the heroic sacrifices and hard work you will claim you have done - but because of where you were born and the colour of your skin.
polite_gandalf wrote on Oct 4
th, 2014 at 3:41pm:
I know what you will counter with - that the antidote against the threats from both is to embrace freedom even more wholeheartedly; that a sort of "free market" political and intellectual environment will sort us all out for the better. I cannot agree with such an idealism, and I am particularly intolerant of it when it is being lectured by someone who is from the dominant, privileged strata of our society. Someone who will never experience real discrimination or prejudice, demanding that the most vulnerable stand up and embrace the idea that they should be mocked and ridiculed for their cultural and ethnic background.