polite_gandalf wrote on Dec 4
th, 2014 at 2:02pm:
now lets not get off track DL - how about you put or shut up?
Datalife wrote on Dec 3
rd, 2014 at 11:59pm:
Scenario, this post, almost exactly as posted, substitute Muslim gunman. You and I and I suggest everyone on the forum would know that the first responders would immediately wade in with the usual well rehearsed responses, almost rote now, the mentally sick, not representative, a minority, majority are peace loving, yadda yadda then post some Googlefoo references as a "hey look over here" deflection and distraction. Throw in some crusades blame to garnish if feeling feisty.
My question is why do the first responders treat the same circumstance so differently? Bias is my obvious answer.
Give me evidence that the "first responders" are those who jump in with these "well rehearsed" apologetics - and not the islamophobes pinning islam and islamic doctrine to these lunatics. If you can, then you might have a point. But it is not the case - they are the second responders -
responding to the islamophobes unfairly tarring all muslims with the same brush. This is important to acknowledge - and is at the heart of the distinction you demand - but refuse to listen to when explained to you. And this is why this thread (with
no inference that christianity and christian doctrine is to blame) does not attract the kind of apologetics you are demanding.
First responders are the first to an emergency. The emergency being any thread that points to or describes an islamic excess. The first responders mitigate, the well rehearsed form of words are tiny minority, not a majority, possible mental illness, majority of peaceful, then Googlefoo pointing at christian excesses.
You can deny this happens but only at the risk of looking as foolish and dishonest as HotSocks.
Now here is a thread that describes a christian excess, you of course are excused, you are protecting your faith, but, if the other first responders are to be believed they do not care about the religion, they want fairness, not having the many painted by the actions of the few.
If the first responders were as impartial as they pretend, they would be stating this gunman was probably mentally ill, only a minority, majority of christians are peaceful, yadda yadda, you know the drill. You have seen it and participated in it many times.
But nope, the first responders did not erect the barricades.
Why the bias?