• thelasthoxhaist [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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    4 years ago

    so if a japanese asks you to take of your shoes when entering his home, are you gonna call him an asshole too, to you basic decency is opression, and you want anyone from the global southto call you a comrade, radlib

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      4 years ago

      The difference is that if you enter a Japanese person’s house in shoes, it won’t result in a random dude getting his fucking head cut off lol.

      Here’s what I don’t understand, if someone says that something is offensive in their religion I’m obviously going to respect that because I’m not an asshole. But if they say that something is a crime in their religion and the punishment is getting beheaded then I’m super not cool with that. They are imposing on me the rules of their religion, which I’m not a part of.

      It’s the same way with Christianity and abortion or homosexuality. Everyone agrees that it’s not cool that Christians are imposing their morality on the rest of the world, why is it different with Islam? That’s an honest question, correct me if I’m being a lib.

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        4 years ago

        its a traditions you dense idiot, stop being such a western chauvinist and accept not everyone country is a parasitic imperialist country based in western supremacy

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          literally what the fuck are you talking about you fucking fool

          “take off your shoes or stay out of my house” completely valid. the reason is cleanliness. theres nothing wrong with that. similarly, “dont draw muhammad in my house or go away” thats fine too

          “dont draw muhammad in your own house” is fucking absurd and it’s disgusting that you support it. its like a christian telling you not to have gay sex in your house because it’s offensive to their religion

          fuck all the way off, your religion does not have power over my fucking life

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            Why would you ever draw Muhammad? About the only reason anyone ever does is in an attempt to deeply insult an enormous number of people. That kind of “fuck you I do what I want” mentality doesn’t garner much sympathy from me. Having a reasonable amount of respect for your fellow human beings (i.e., not doing something you would never otherwise do specifically to piss them off) is something we need more of.

            Yeah, you’re free to yell the N-word at the top of your lungs in public. Yeah, if a black person decides to beat you to death for it they’re in the wrong, too. But my sympathy for you in that situation is limited because maybe you shouldn’t be an absolute piece of shit just because you technically can.

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              Why would you ever draw Muhammad?

              i have never had any desire to do so and i probably never will, but it is not immoral to do so and i have every right if i did want to

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                i have every right if i did want to

                Yes, that’s exactly the “fuck you I do what I want” mentality I was criticizing. That makes you a massive piece of shit, even if you’re technically free to do it.

                You shouldn’t be a massive piece of shit, and you certainly aren’t accomplishing anything if you choose to be one. You should be a decent human being.

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                  ok, imagine for a second that i tell you that, according to my religion, it is wrong to wear red on tuesdays. wearing red on tuesdays is a completely benign act im sure we can both agree, there is nothing wrong with doing so. but ill be offended if you do it.

                  are you an asshole for deciding to wear red on tuesday? no. of fucking course not. you’re also not racist, or a lib, or a chud, or a reactionary, or any of the shit im being called in these comments.

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            no one has ever said “don’t draw Muhammad in your own house”??? where the hell are you getting this from. nobody is asking you to not draw Muhammad in private, that’s absurd and irrelevant to the question. this whole discourse is about western reactionaries intentionally enflaming the situation by drawing Muhammad outwardly, usually in racist big-nosed depictions i might add.

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              this whole discourse is about western reactionaries intentionally enflaming the situation by drawing Muhammad outwardly

              a muslim’s right to tell a person what they can and can not draw based on religious rules end at their own doorstep. i dont care if they’re drawing muhammad and then printing it on flags and flying those flags on every street corner in the entire world, it literally does not matter and anyone who gets upset at them for it is responsible for their own feelings, because no one has any obligation to respect rules specific to their religion

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                so once again, “drawing Muhammad in your own home” is not the question at hand here, you accept this. now you need to accept that nobody gives a shit about questioning the “morality” of drawing Muhammad in a vacuum just as no leftist with half a brain thinks the literal letter structure of the n-word is morally evil on its own. we’re talking about cultural contexts. and just as it’s morally wrong to go out of your way to be racist towards black people, it’s morally wrong to go out of your way to be racist towards Muslims. and it takes a bizarre amount of effort in this context as well, i mean you are arguing for the right for people to make elaborate art just to be racist.

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                  there is literally nothing racist about drawing muhammad as a statement that you dont respect religious guidelines, just in the same way there’s nothing racist about waving a pride flag in a christian’s face. when people try to impose their religious rules on you and you decide to go out of your way to disrespect those rules, that isnt fucking racist.

                  these people the OP is talking about are almost certainly racist, yes, but it is not racist to draw muhammad

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                    muslims are a race, and its racist to draw muhammad now, read the room my friend. this is the way of things. stop trying to conflate everything under the western conception of “religion” as if you can approach them all in the exact same way, you imperialist fuck. come to each one humbly with your head bowed, and attempt to learn something new about a different culture, for once in your fucking life.

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      What does taking your shoes off when entering someone’s home has to do with their race? Why would you keep your shoes on, unless specifically asked in the first place?