The Race For 2024

[Emily Lake]

Your post highlights above was rude and hateful, Poli.

The post I was replying to had no content, except a jab about supposedly kowtowing too much to Muslims. It's so far removed from the actual topic of either the thread or my post, I don't see how else one can respond. You hate Muslims. You think Democrats are too soft on Muslims. What is there to talk about? It had nothing to do with the topic at hand.

I don’t hate Muslims. I find the religion of Islam to be abhorrent toward women, and for thousands of years it’s been used to justify colonization, conquest, oppression, and genocide.

None of which justifies your nastiness and insults toward me.

If you don’t want to receive it, simply stop dishing it out. I’ve given plenty of warning of my expectations. You control the tenor of our interactions.

colonization conquest oppression genocide. The type of Christian’s running the GOP never did any of that.

Not in quite a while, at least. I haven't claimed christians are free from criticism, not by a long shot. Just that on average, they've learned from the past and no longer engage in such behavior at scale.

And be honest - the christians running the DNC are part of that mess too.

More seriously - why do you feel it necessary to defend a religion that is actively, currently, in modern times doing such horrible things? Arabic states, which are ALL islamic, have the highest rates of forced labor and sexual slavery, they have the most oppressed women by far of any other cultural group out there, and muslims actively engaged in *literal* genocide in Nigeria.

Why do so many of the same people who say they value equality and oppose oppression close their eyes to it when it's actually happening?

 

[Emily Lake]

The person that thinks all Muslims are a threat is upset about satirical and sarcastic use of epithets. I guess they find Mel Brooks abhorrent. My pearls have gone missing again.

I don't think they're funny at all. I don't think claims of "satire" and "sarcasm" make it acceptable behavior.

 

[bilby]

I'm calling bullshit. I've heard from a lot of right wing Yanks "Jesus is still King".

You know that's not meant as a literal leader of a government, right?

Well, obviously, it's not meant to be taken literally — it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.

 

[Emily Lake]

I'm calling bullshit. I've heard from a lot of right wing Yanks "Jesus is still King".

You know that's not meant as a literal leader of a government, right?

Well, obviously, it's not meant to be taken literally — it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.

IDGI