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Photographer

(1,142 posts)
Tue Dec 8, 2015, 12:32 AM Dec 2015

New Test:

Replace the word "Muslims" with "Jews" and ask yourself: Do I sound like a fucking Nazi?

Exactly! But Americans seem to not understand nuance. They'll say, "But its different because Muslims are trying to kill us!"

Well, more Americans are killed by fellow Americans with guns than by foreign born Muslims, so what?!?

Fascism always scapegoats unpopular minority groups, such as religious minorities and LGBT people. People might fool themselves into thinking that this is a "Judeo-Christian nation", but we were once anti-Semitic, too.

Peace out.

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Leith

(7,813 posts)
3. You're Absolutely Right
Tue Dec 8, 2015, 01:44 AM
Dec 2015

I've done the same sort of thing by switching one group in a statement with another to see how it sounds. It sounds horrible.

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