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[ALERT!] Terrorist Blows up Manchester Arena - Multiple Injured!
Hansome duded:
--- Quote from: Kidalex90 on May 22, 2017, 09:21:23 PM ---ok lets cut to the chase we need to nuke syria and build the wall out of uranium
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is this amateur hour? we need to wall syria and nuke uranium.
PhantOS:
--- Quote from: Silreath on May 22, 2017, 09:08:10 PM ---listen man, I know you're a liberal, and you know, I am too
but how the forget can you say that?
all terrorist groups that have all been of note for the last 25 years have all been radical muslims.
and i know that not all Muslims are the enemy, but this ideology is the one and only cause for terrorism.
CIA does what it does in the name of Islam, as does Hezbollah, al-Quaeda, and every other militant group under the sun.
it sucks, and it's awful that we have to blame a religion for the actions for a select few, but we can't afford to stop and ask, "are you a normal person, or are you a belligerent savage?"
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You're right, it is awful that people have to blame an entire religion for the actions of a very select few. It has nothing to do with them being muslim, it has to do with the fact that people need to pick a group of people to forget over since they can't forget over the people responsible.
Why do you think we made japanese internment camps and rejected jewish refugees? We made them because they aren't us, and that's why people are trying to pull the 'muslims are all terrorist' card, because it's easier to be a spineless forget and hide behind lies and prejudice than to face the truth and commit to helping people in need.
It pains the average person to admit that they are too much of a pusillanimous individual to be nice to others and do the right thing, so instead of blaming themselves they blame other people so they don't have to admit stuff. Just pick a group of people, make up lies and fake statistics about them and it's done. While that person gets to feel the rush of wrongfully blaming other people, the people being blamed are denied help and left to fend for themselves in a literal warzone.
It's childish and immature, but what can you do- history always repeats itself.
Hansome duded:
--- Quote from: PhantOS on May 22, 2017, 09:26:06 PM --- literal warzone
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as opposed to a figurative warzone :cookieMonster:
Silreath:
--- Quote from: PhantOS on May 22, 2017, 09:26:06 PM ---You're right, it is awful that people have to blame an entire religion for the actions of a very select few. It has nothing to do with them being muslim, it has to do with the fact that people need to pick a group of people to forget over since they can't forget over the people responsible.
Why do you think we made japanese internment camps and rejected jewish refugees? We made them because they aren't us, and that's why people are trying to pull the 'muslims are all terrorist' card, because it's easier to be a spineless forget and hide behind lies and prejudice than to face the truth and commit to helping people in need.
It pains the average person to admit that they are too much of a pusillanimous individual to be nice to others and do the right thing, so instead of blaming themselves they blame other people so they don't have to admit stuff. Just pick a group of people, make up lies and fake statistics about them and it's done. While that person gets to feel the rush of wrongfully blaming other people, the people being blamed are denied help and left to fend for themselves in a literal warzone.
It's childish and immature, but what can you do- history always repeats itself.
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you are 100% right, and I'm not being facetious.
but there is a difference between what is right; what is morally upstanding, what should be acceptable and what things should be like- and what reality is; how things are RIGHT NOW, what will realistically happen in the future, and what things have happened. I wish we could live in a world without borders, and I wish we lived in a world without the fear of bombings and trucks ruining your parade (and to a larger extent, fear a whole religion) and save the many men, women, and children in syria that desperately need our help.
but that's just wishful thinking.
we live in a world where you DO have to be suspicious of refugees because if a single person with bad intentions enters the country, it's bad news for hundreds of people that will have to face the wrath of a ideologue gone mad. and we DO live in a time where you cant face reality and you have to cower behind thinly veiled racism and prejudice just to hide your cowardice. and to an extent- that's okay. i know it's not fair, and I pray every single night for those that got a short end of the stick, but that's reality and we have to learn with it, and realize, as you said, "what can you do?"
Conan:
--- Quote from: Quote Story on May 22, 2017, 09:25:05 PM ---so are immigrants guilty until proven innocent?
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the conservative outlook appears to be yes, due to the perceived risk. not trying to imply there is no risk, though.