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2 months agoIf you ever find yourself making a statement about how “all the muslims” are idiots, maybe stop and reconsider. Do you see a distinction between a complaint about “all the muslims” and a complaint about “all the jews” or “all the blacks”?
edit: other than one of those being more socially acceptable to be used as a target of ridicule
A lot of people I spoke with, living and working in Dearborn, saw it as a moral line for them and wouldn’t vote for either major candidate. Misrepresenting that position as something very obviously nonsensical and attributing that idiotic belief as being a muslim thing, that is bigotry, whether or not you want to pretend the idea of Trump saving Gaza is a perfectly reasonable thing that perfectly reasonable people might believe. No one believed Trump would be good for Gaza, and thinking it’s realistic that that muslims as a group really are that dumb and you won’t get pushback for saying that out loud, that says something about you.
You’re writing it as “all the muslims” have been brainwashed into believing in something that you see yourself as not stupid enough to fall for. It’s trash-talking muslims by imagining they share a common belief in something obviously stupid.
And again, ask yourself whether you would be comfortable attributing, out loud, a belief you think is stupid to “all the blacks” or “all the jews”. If there are any situations where you would feel comfortable using those phrases in a sentence, out loud. If not, what makes your use of “all the muslims” different enough to not count as bigotry? If one of these phrases just slips out, there’s a deeper problem than simply saying the words. Introspect on that.