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That's surely what happened, even though it obviously isn't correct. Islam is a religion, not a race. It's just as reasonable for the French to complain about
by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
That's surely what happened, even though it obviously isn't correct. Islam is a religion, not a race.
It's just as reasonable for the French to complain about Islam as for a progressive Californian to complain about Christianity.
Sadly, HN doesn't seem to take away the right to flag posts when people abuse it.
- istjohn 3y agoA progressive Californian and a Christian Californian are as likely as not to have the same racial background. A French Islamophobe and a French Muslim, not so much. California never colonized a Christian country like France colonized Algeria. Sometimes the superficial truth is just that, and reality is more nuanced.
- LawTalkingGuy 3y agoYou're trying too hard to force a racial context onto France and deny one in the USA. In California a Christian is less likely to be white, and a progressive more likely to be white than not. And many of those Christians come from countries that the USA has been involved in and not always left in good shape so most of the same dynamics even exist. Regardless, criticizing religion is fair game and a Euro has a right to criticize Islam the same as to criticize Christianity, even if there's a racial disparity between the membership of the two.