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Thread #75063 Message #1396030
Posted By: CarolC
01-Feb-05 - 04:28 PM
Thread Name: Obit: More Muslim intolerance?
Subject: RE: Obit: More Muslim intolerence?
I have two main premises for the purpose of this discussion..
As I have stated several times already, my use of the word "bigot" with reference to Ooh-Aah2 in this thread is intended more as an illustration of how name calling and other kinds of personal attacks, as practiced by Ooh-Aah2 in a significant percentage of his posts in the Mudcat, do not serve the interests of cogent and rational discussion or debate, than it is in service to any of the points I'm trying to make on the subject of this thread.
However, on the subject of the word "bigotry", the meaning of that term does include the practice of prejudice against certain groups of people while favoring others. To whatever extent one focuses primarily on the bad things about one group, while diverting attention away from the good things about that group, and only focuses on the good things about another group, while diverting attention away from the bad things about that group, that is prejudice, and by extension, also bigotry (and scapegoating). Ooh-Aah2 has done quite a bit of that on this thread. But it is not really important to me to try to convince Ooh-Aah2 of that. Hence my willingness to agree to disagree.
My other premise is that it is simply not possible for anyone to make a legitimate and verifiable argument about which religion or religions, if any, are more prone to any kind of tendencies whatever, and that any kind of generalization one tries to make in answer to that question will be opinion and nothing more.