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longwayhome -> RE: Illegal Alien Rapes & Kills Muslim Girl (6/23/2017 11:02:21 PM)
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
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ORIGINAL: BoscoX
jlf is an intellectually lazy sort who often finds it much easier to attack a straw man of his own construction than debate a given topic honorably
Actually, considering your ignorant, biased and clearly phobic anti Muslim rants on this board, I am merely pointing out that you have, in the past, advocated actions against the entire Muslim population, that in the very least would be considered inhumane, and at your own wording, could almost be advocating genocide.
The fact that you are merely quoting ultra right wing anti Muslim rhetoric, and the quotes from the Quran that are taken out of context (which is exactly what the Islamic extremist leaders have done) and pushed them as the entire basis of a religion, that, for the most part of its history, has done more for those citizens in their countries who were non Muslim than Christian countries have done for those within their own borders.
Actually, I have seen the same anti Muslim rhetoric, in almost the same wording as much of the anti Semitic propaganda used by Nazis to justify the mass genocide of Jews and other undesirable ethnic groups.
In the wars that followed the break up of Yugoslavia, both sides used the same arguments to justify ethnic cleansing, but changed the target group.
During the cold war, the US promoted anti Communist propaganda to justify the largest defense budget on the planet.
"The evil Empire" was Reagan's favorite way to refer to the Soviet Union.
Funny thing about the Republicans back in those years, on one hand they screamed of the evils of Communism, but on the other hand, made wonderfully lucrative deals with those same evil communists to sell excess US grains to them at prices that were above what was being charged other countries.
In the days of American expansionism, the arguments being put forth to vilify the Muslims were used against Native Americans. In point of fact, the US government is directly and indisputably responsible for the elimination of a number of native American cultures, by extermination.
So, it is nothing new to American culture to find an enemy to vilify, the only thing that has changed is the fact that, in the modern world, we are not openly trying to exterminate them.
Interesting analysis.
It's certainly not just American culture that engages in the scapegoating of the other.
I don't think BoscoX has the required imagination or empathy to stand outside his own situation and realise the tragic irony in what he is saying.
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