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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Indeed. Which is why I responded as I did to Hank's explanation of his joke, which belies your post ("fyi, I was simply making, the obviously a little too obtuse, joke that girls can't go to school in Islam countries.") and why I reacted strongly when you posted in defense of that hil-A-ri-ous joke. Hank's and your claim that you were talking about AQ is further belied by the fact that AQ doesn't run any countries and doesn't set educational policy even in the three nations you selected as exemplars, for whatever reason.
I made the point that girls do indeed attend school both in Islamic, and even in Islamist countries such as Iran (which you chose to mention). You then helpfully point out that madrassa attendance by girls in three specified countries is low. Unless you're willing to concede that was a 100% irrelevant point, I don't see how making the Islam/Islamist distinction helps you in your "defense" of Hank's admittedly overgeneralized and factually incorrect joke.*
*Factually incorrect jokes are funny when it is clear to all that they're factually incorrect --- in most people's experience, frogs don't walk into bars and midgets don't have enormous dicks. I'm still not certain we're on the same page on this, which is a different and less funny kind of irony.
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Blow me. I received an IM asking what the post meant. The IM'er thought that I was taking GGG's position that people staying home was cowardly.
Clearly it was a reference to AQ, "You are appeasing AQ if you keep your daughter out of school." Coupled with the earlier appeasement posts, and in context, it was clear.
Having received the IM, I post an explanation, quickly, and perhaps overbroad. For fucks sakes, we are 3 hours later than you. We've had wine with our dinner by the time you're looking at 5PM.
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