@freemo @cnx nah the blue guy on the bottom was a huge meme and I think I always misheard him say you're fucking a white male. While others saying it's you're a fucking white male.
@freemo irrelevant but I wonder why all these left-wing people wear glasses and the others (along with Mudasir and the employees) don't
@freemo right wing racism column but unironically, except for the anti-Muslim panel.

@freemo At least you know where the white supremacists stand, even if they're irreconcilably stupid. I've always been a little baffled by the American left's brand of tolerance. Criticism of religious beliefs, for example, is impossible under the guise of tolerance, regardless of how intolerant or harmful the belief itself is. Sorry but a shitty idea is still shitty regardless of it's packaging.

@b6hydra I generally have no problem with someone criticising a religious idea. The issue is when you assume all members of a religion have the same interpritation as you. There is a huge gap between the words you might be able to quote out of a religious book and the views of a follower of a religion.

@freemo Sure, I agree with that. I'm referring to the more general notion that religion is above repudiation in the name of tolerance. I'll give a more concrete example. I am against both male and female circumcision. To me, they're both genital mutilation (although one is obviously worse than the other). Yet, there are religions that promote both these acts.

It's not a topic that comes up often of course but I've had people ask, what about Judaism or Islam? Isn't male circumcision part of their religion? The implication being that the practice is beyond reproach because it is religious in nature. It's those kinds of mental gymnastics that don't compute for me, whereby 'the left' approves of actions they would otherwise find objectionable, just because it's part of someone's religious beliefs.

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