The prejudice, while appalling, is almost made into a lesser moral offence by the astounding ignorance.
Hitler and Stalin as best mates?
And the person who calls Allah a false God probably calls themselves a Christian and is utterly unconscious of the fact that Allah and Jehova are the same God.
And anyway, "kill them all and let their false God sort it out" completely loses the meaning of the original saying "Kill them all, the Lord will recognise his own" - a false God wouldnt be judging the dead, would he?
Maybe I'm just too pedantic.
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I guess there is a freedom of speech argument here as well. Some of these things would be illegal in the UK as incitements to religious hatrid. Whether it is right to be allowed to say things which are offensive or harmful to some - I am not 100% convinced of either side being completely true. There are times we should have the right to offend, and there are things that you should not be allowed to say (ie - shouting "fire" in a crowded cinema" being the classic example)
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To share a somewhat related example, I once called a "blue" comedian at a "gentleman's night" (basically strippers and shit comedy full of swearing and racism/sexism etc) a fucking cunt because he made jokes about Jews and gas ovens. I said it after his segment had finished when he was at the bar, he didnt have much to say for himself back, just made some fatuous comment about people not having a sense of humour. But he didnt make any more jokes like that the next time he was up.
If the bouncer who was looking after the girls was there probably would have had some trouble - but it was a working mans club (ie - everyone was a member and I knew nearly everyone there) so I doubt he would have had a go.
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Originally Posted by Walt
This doesn’t really warrant its own thread, but I couldn’t help but share.
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The other weekend, my girlfriend and I left our small hippie mountain town and road tripped to a relatively close larger town to do some shopping. While there, we saw a bunch of signs advertising a local gun show. My girlfriend is a former exchange grad student/ current associate prof at my school and was curious about what, exactly, a gun show entailed. I figured it would be entertaining to introduce her to the batshit crazy folks and militants that are common at such events.
Long story, short: we weren’t disappointed. Amongst the “normals”, there were the usual tables of guys selling authentically fake Nazi uniforms and medals, the ubiquitous sleeveless beef jerky/hot sauce guy, and the militant “freedom” groups out trying to recruit folks to their cause.
We had made the rounds of the place, and had stopped at the very last table before calling it a day. The guy at the last table was selling used military uniforms, veeeery right-wing antigovernment literature and similarly themed t-shirts. One of the shirts had a picture of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pres. Obama posed as BFFs. Another had an image of a bunch of dudes praying at Mecca with a caption that said “Kill’em all, let their false God sort them out”. Classy stuff.
I noticed that my girlfriend had a confused look on her face and was staring at a particular t-shirt with the word “INFIDEL” in bold across the front, with a sentence beneath it in Arabic script. My girlfriend is a both a native Arab and is a native speaker of Arabic. I asked her “whats up?” She said; “this doesn’t make any sense. The shirt says ‘search result could not be found’.”
Apparently the guy selling the shirt had typed some kind of witty slogan in to Google Translate and then copy and pasted the first thing that popped up in Arabic. I pointed this out to the guy selling the shirts. He became visibly upset and said “well I don’t speak sand nigger and I’m glad that I don’t”. I said “I’m glad too. You just made our day”. The folks who happened to be nearby thought this was hilarious. The guy; not so much. Good times.
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Anyone care to share similar gun show experiences?
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