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pc stuff
I'm not known for being PC, despite the occasional comment to the contrary here. That is because I rarely focus on the surface and I recognize that sometimes a joke is just a joke and a fag is just a cigarette. If more people did this, we would be better off.
As far as talking about religion, race, sexual orientation without getting in trouble, sometimes you cannot. Sometimes someone in the room will have a knee jerk reaction and you will spend more time trying to prove you aren't a bigot then you can spend on a useful conversation on the subject. That is truly unfortunate, we'd be much better off if we could have an honest discussion about Islam and its impact on women, never mind Christianity and its impact on women. We would be better off if we could have an honest conversation about HIV in the gay community. We would be better off if we could have an honest conversation about domestic abuse amongst lesbians.
Sometimes what happens is if you discuss the former you are being intolerant of religion. What happens if you discuss the latter is that people who are anti-gay scream see, that is why it is wrong to be homosexual, or they do something similar to what happened on the last board and make up statistics about women beating up women (rampaging democratic lesbians as I recall.)
In all cases the point is being missed. But then again, sometimes people bring up Islam and women or HIV and gay people simply because they want to attack Islam or gay people. Which returns us again to context.
Look at the two statements:
How do you defend the terrorist religion of Islam, it is violent and intolerant of women?
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I am concerned about the impact of Islam on women, do you think we could talk about the history there so I can obtain a better understanding of what is really going on.
A lot of the people crying PC PC are the ones who start the conversation the first way. And all they are really doing is hiding the fact that they are bigots behind those two letters.
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