Mac1958
Diamond Member
The White House. The Senate. The House. The Supreme Court. State Houses.The term is nothing more than a tool the PC zealots use to put you on the defensive and avoid an honest conversation.
If you challenge something, they immediately accuse you of "______phobia" and they no longer have to defend it.
Uh, guy, if anything, we aren't having an honest discussion about our problems in the middle east because you wingnuts say things like "They hate our freedom" and "Their religion is screwed up".
An honest discussion would be, "Why are we invading other people's countries?"
Of course, there's an element of racism involved. MOcking their religion is a way to dehumanize them and not have the above conversation. "They don't value life like we do". It's something we ALWAYS tell ourselves about our "enemies" (read the people the rich get the working class to fight because they have resources they want.) . I'm old enough to remember when people said that about the Vietnamese when they wouldn't just lay down when we invaded them.
So Islamophobia is an accurate criticism. Most of you don't understand Islam, but man, it's scary that someone will lay down his life for his country and his God with no regard to his personal safety!
Trump's win, in large part, was fueled by a national backlash against this dishonest, cowardly and counterproductive tactic.
No, buddy. Trump didn't win. And Trump did use exactly the same kind of distractions- fear of "the Other". Muslims want to kill you. (Even though you are far more likely to be killed by a white trash loser with a gun) Mexicans want to rape you! anything to distract from the fact that more and more of the wealth is shifting from the working class to the investing class.
We'll see how much longer they try the tactic, now that it has come back and punched them square in the nose.
Sorry, man, you still can't tell dirty jokes in the office, buddy. Trump's bad boy attitude will only last him as long as people don't realize he has no clue as to what he is doing.
Thanks loads, Joe.
And WHATEVER you do, DON'T LOOK IN THE MIRROR.
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