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Reg has a short vid from Dawkins about Islamophobia.

How to reconcile the positions taken by Autumn and Dawkins?

Correct me if i misstate your position Autumn. Islamophobia is a valid term. Whether the target is Muslims or Islam is immaterial. It is not about Muslims or Islam. Rather it is about bigots. Autumn rightly points to instances in…[Read more]

I don’t think I’d worry if I was the horse 🙂

Unless the plaintiff calls Doctor Dolittle as an expert witness and is able to uncover a nasty case of nerves/anxiety easily treatable with xanax and willfully refused by the equine who had reacted similarly to numerous backfiring from his owner’s rear end as well as his jalopy.

Under those cir…[Read more]

Simon that is kind of correct in a nonlegal framing.

Unseen, causation as an aspect of legal claims can get murky. By a preponderance of the evidence an action or omission by defendant creates an undue and forseeable risk of harm. Said omission or commission has to be the actual cause (sometime referred to as but for cause) and the proximate cause. Proximate cause takes a lot of explaining and…[Read more]

Consequences?

Consequences of lying?

Oh what tangled webs we weave when first we practice to _________.

Forseeability and proximate cause are concepts in negligence law and elements of claims. So causation or our perception/understanding of it is an integral aspect of legal claims. As one might expect it is not required of a plaintiff to…[Read more]

Unseen, i agree with all you’ve written in your shrinkflation post. I am seeing shrinkflation detonation. It is really bad.

Apropos of not much i have always despised cow’s milk. It is pretty weird for an adult to drink milk and then of a different species. I have switched to oat milk and find it not great but better than milk.

“You question asked if my defence would be the same if the target were child molesters as if who the target was had some bearing on the bigotry in question. Why would it change? Why would who the target is matter? If it doesn’t matter, then what’s the point of the question? If you understood the argument I was putting forward then the question had…[Read more]

Autumn i do not follow your comment.

Autumn wrote, ” You are conflating whether people deserve criticism with whether or not they deserve bigotry.”

Not so.

Davis i am not comparing the two. I was curious to see whether Autumn was more an apologist for Islam/Muslims or had principles that would carry over. The answer was as i expected.

Autumn would your defense of the term be the same if the target were child molesters? Pedophilphobia? So instead of a significant minority group of the entire population and its abhorrent institution we were considering irrational bigotry/antipathy towards molesters.

In the former we have an institution and its followers who “are bigots (and…[Read more]

Autumn, i see where you are coming from. Strong case you’ve made. I am not really sure what i think after reflecting. On the one hand it seems ideas and people have to be separated. It is too sloppy to leave a term like Islamophobia an amorphous concept. On other hand i think human nature is such that ideas and humans espousing those ideas are…[Read more]

In regard to islamaphobia it is pretty obvious ya gotta define the term. Are you referring to Muslims or Islam? Ideas or people?

If it is ideas then indeed it is an obnoxious term. Aint nothing irrational about fear/hatred of Islam.

Antisemitism is not a congruent term. The long history of hatred against all things Jewish is all encompassing.…[Read more]