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21 Sep 2005, 15:25
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can someone help me win an argument with racists
Basically they are coming out with a lot of anti-muslim comments and saying "but muslims aren't a race they are a religion so therefore I'm not racist"
I can't seem to be able to persuade them that they are
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21 Sep 2005, 15:29
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
My Indonesian part of the family, the biggest proportion of it, hate Islam or anything closely related to it. They don't really give a shit if people consider their points of view as being racism.
I'm afraid I can't help you.
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21 Sep 2005, 15:34
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
Some people hide their racism behind these kinds of concepts, such as religion/immigration etc. If you feel that's what they're doing, then say so. But if they're simply making a legitimate argument against Islam, then fair play to them.
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21 Sep 2005, 15:41
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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Originally Posted by Marilyn Manson
Some people hide their racism behind these kinds of concepts, such as religion/immigration etc. If you feel that's what they're doing, then say so. If they're making a legitimate argument against Islam, then fair play to them.
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Their "arguments" are:
"I hate ****ing muslims, i wish they would all blow themselves up, preferably not in our country."
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"Muslims are ****ing evil"
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"I f*ck*ng hate muslims with a passion, not because of where they're from, but purely because THEY ARE trying to turn England into a muslim country."
etc.
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21 Sep 2005, 15:42
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
Then they're obviously being idiotic and I doubt you need any help from me in highlighting why.
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21 Sep 2005, 15:42
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
Are they aware that there is a difference between Islamic extremists and moderate Muslims?
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21 Sep 2005, 15:45
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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Originally Posted by Marilyn Manson
Then they're obviously being idiotic and I doubt you need any help from me in highlighting why.
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No but we've got to the point where we're arguing whether it's racist or not.
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
Some people are already accepting that the word 'Muslim' is an identity.
Just like Jewish. It's an identity. Not just a race/religion.
But to say 'being racist to a Muslim', I don't see how that works...
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21 Sep 2005, 15:46
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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No but we've got to the point where we're arguing whether it's racist or not.
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Why? I'm not really sure it makes any difference whether it's racism or not; it's patently hateful, bigotted rubbish. Whether this includes some element of racism is rather irrelevant and is pretty much splitting hairs imo.
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21 Sep 2005, 15:48
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
I think under legislation Muslims, Sikhs, etc have some sort of status as "a race" in terms of discrimination.
However, clearly they're not a race in a traditional sense. There are plenty of types of bigotry / stupidity which aren't racist (e.g. homophobia). Of course, as MM says, a lot of people are dishonest on this subject.
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21 Sep 2005, 15:55
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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Originally Posted by Marilyn Manson
Why? I'm not really sure it makes any difference whether it's racism or not; it's patently hateful, bigotted rubbish. Whether this includes some element of racism is rather irrelevant and is pretty much splitting hairs imo.
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If it's 'racist' it's against forum rules and it's one of the moderators saying it.
Although I've noticed that the forum rules are currently inaccessable so i can't check the wording...
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21 Sep 2005, 15:57
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
Ste,
Islamophobia.
It's similar to Anti-semitism.... in a way.
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21 Sep 2005, 16:01
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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If it's 'racist' it's against forum rules and it's one of the moderators saying it.
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This sounds like a really weird and shitty forum tbh. What is it exactly?
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21 Sep 2005, 16:09
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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This sounds like a really weird and shitty forum tbh. What is it exactly?
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erm, you ARE aware moderators on THIS forum have made exactly the same sort of biggoted anti-religious commentry before right ?
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21 Sep 2005, 16:12
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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THEY ARE trying to turn England into a muslim country."
etc.
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Don't you agree with that comment though?
I don't actually hate Muslim people however, but I often wonder what the world would be like if there was no Islam...
9/11, 7/7, Israel/Palestine, Kashmir, Algeria/France, Turkey/Greece, Somalia, Algeria, Chechen rebels, The Beslan School Siege etc...
In fact, is there anything going on in the world right now that doesn't involve Islam?...
Maybe if we tried understanding things from their point of view we wouldn't have these atrocities?
Is it our fault?
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21 Sep 2005, 16:14
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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erm, you ARE aware moderators on THIS forum have made exactly the same sort of biggoted anti-religious commentry before right ?
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Against Muslims?
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21 Sep 2005, 16:16
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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In fact, is there anything going on in the world right now that doesn't involve Islam?...
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A lot of the conflicts you listed were national conflicts (Turkey/Greece has bugger all to do with 'Islam' for instance). But anyway in answer to your question - yes. Northern Ireland, Nepal, Colombia, North Korea, China-Taiwan, land issues in Zimbabwae, etc, etc.
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21 Sep 2005, 16:18
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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In fact, is there anything going on in the world right now that doesn't involve Islam?...
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21 Sep 2005, 16:19
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
you're forum cheating on us with a bunch of slags!
Personally i think the use of the word 'race' in any of these sorts of arguments is a little absurd, you're organising people along some sort of arbitary trait and saying its not ok to be hateful against them but it is ok to be hateful against these other people. As blasto says use islamophobic.
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Originally Posted by arachnidman
Don't you agree with that comment though?
I don't actually hate Muslim people however, but I often wonder what the world would be like if there was no Islam...
9/11, 7/7, Israel/Palestine, Kashmir, Algeria/France, Turkey/Greece, Somalia, Algeria, Chechen rebels, The Beslan School Siege etc...
In fact, is there anything going on in the world right now that doesn't involve Islam?...
Maybe if we tried understanding things from their point of view we wouldn't have these atrocities?
Is it our fault?
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'White europeans' have ****ed up this world in more ways than islam could possibly imagine, are you going to cull yourself?
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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Against Muslims?
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not against muslims.
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21 Sep 2005, 16:33
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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not against muslims.
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I somehow doubt that anti-religion sentiments on here have been expressed in precisely those terms of with that amount of vehemence.
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21 Sep 2005, 16:38
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
'remind' them that the law considers them racists.
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21 Sep 2005, 16:49
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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'remind' them that the law considers them racists.
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They're complaining about 'muslims taking over the country'. That would just be added to their argument...
MM - It's a forest forum... Football fans... What kind of opinion do you expect?
Spiderman - no, I don't agree with that comment. A handful of muslims may be trying to turn the country into a muslim country but generalising it is stupid.
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21 Sep 2005, 16:54
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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They're complaining about 'muslims taking over the country'. That would just be added to their argument...
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only if black people, jews, gay people, transvestites and yellow people are 'taking over the country' too because the one legal definition covers the lot.
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
The term "Racism" is just about as ignornant as those who sling it around as if it means something.
With regards to humans, there is only ONE race; Human. You can break it up into country of orgin all you want, or color of skin, but god damn it, how can someone be so insipid as to adoped such a low-brow, and miserably thought out word as "Racism"?
Bah...what am I talking about? How dare I contradict the dictionary, that bible of semantic command.
Be a racist, sling the word around, believe in it, and I will remain with my opinion, laughing at all of you who dance on its strings.
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21 Sep 2005, 18:09
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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A handful of muslims may be trying to turn the country into a muslim country
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Ah haa!
So the statement "Muslims are trying to convert the country" is true right? This handful are in fact muslim.
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21 Sep 2005, 18:14
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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Basically they are coming out with a lot of anti-muslim comments and saying "but muslims aren't a race they are a religion so therefore I'm not racist"
I can't seem to be able to persuade them that they are
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Why bother arguing with racists?
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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Ah haa!
So the statement "Muslims are trying to convert the country" is true right? This handful are in fact muslim.
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That's not what was said or implied.
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21 Sep 2005, 18:16
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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Why bother arguing with racists?
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Racists with conflicting opinions.
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21 Sep 2005, 19:05
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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Basically they are coming out with a lot of anti-muslim comments and saying "but muslims aren't a race they are a religion so therefore I'm not racist"
I can't seem to be able to persuade them that they are
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tbh i wouldnot call them racists either.
Many other words cross my mind tho
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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'remind' them that the law considers them racists.
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maybe the english law.
But in dutch a racist would only have a thing against ppl of a certain RACE, and not religion.
Hating ppl for a religion would for our law be discrimination, not rasism.
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
You can't win an argument with them. Hating Muslims is a personal choice they have made for vague emotional reasons. There's no argument you can attack that with if they don't make some sort of logic based statement like "I hate Muslims because when they jump my dishwasher breaks." To which you could then provide evidence to clearly and unambiguously show that a jumping Muslim is not the cause of the dishwasher breaking.
I suggest getting them to make a statement you can refute with evidence, if they don't, or if they do and you clearly have shown them wrong but they continue to hold their ground you can just call them idiots and move on.
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
Can't blame people for not liking Muslims at the moment.
Even Hindu's can stand them, its not just the White Europeans & Americans who are geting a bit peeved.
Indians ie Hindus hate Muslims more than we can imagine, moreso even if Bin Laden raped the Queen.
Odd thing is their Religion is a direct decendent from Chirstianity. afaik. Just a book along the same lines written about 400 years after about some bloke called Mohammed. In my opinion he can't be that unique. There are thousands of them in the Uk now.
Any how, feck religion, be agnostic. Assume there is a higher power but dont go all out to label yourself in believing in an invisible superhero who came from a time when there were no cameras to record the evidence, and painters were shyt, so their is no accurate depiction. And the amount of scribes out there. few and far between. Bible does not work therefore Koran can't work.
Etc went off a bit there.
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
Islam is moronic and has a strong negative effect on the world. I dont understand how this is even remotely 'racist'.
"Racism" has went from being a legitimate term into a worthless non-concept used to denote anyone who doesnt accept some bizzaro relativist view of global equality. There are no real criteria governing its use, and you can pretty much write off any sentence containing it as meaningless.
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
Whats nod replying to?
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
Jesus Christ, shut up Nodrog
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
Rational arguments never trump emotional ones. If you disagree with this then you have never been married.
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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Why bother arguing with racists?
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To challenge their views (if it's a general forum) and also to make them think about what they're saying.
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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Originally Posted by Arachnidman
Don't you agree with that comment though?
I don't actually hate Muslim people however, but I often wonder what the world would be like if there was no Islam...
9/11, 7/7, Israel/Palestine, Kashmir, Algeria/France, Turkey/Greece, Somalia, Algeria, Chechen rebels, The Beslan School Siege etc...
In fact, is there anything going on in the world right now that doesn't involve Islam?...
Maybe if we tried understanding things from their point of view we wouldn't have these atrocities?
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Christians have caused more trouble I would imagine.
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Re: can someone help me win an argument with racists
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Basically they are coming out with a lot of anti-muslim comments and saying "but muslims aren't a race they are a religion so therefore I'm not racist"
I can't seem to be able to persuade them that they are
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to answer the thread title direclty, the answer is generally no. The whole thing about racism is that it is irrational. Unfortunately we only have rational arguments, which irrational people tend to ignore. Incidentally they are more bigoted than racist, since they are right that Islam is not a race.
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