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Maybe look at things from a British Muslim girl’s POV:

Immigrants don’t need to integrate, you do

Also, you guys remain stuck in the habit of attributing the behavior, beliefs, actions, crimes of just some to group as a whole.

_Robert_ wrote:
And we can look at real crime data as well. 6.5% of the population accounts for 18.1% of the prison population. So almost three times the crime rate.

So, in Great Britain Muslims (who, let’s face it, face prejudices there) constitute a percent of prison population 2.78 times greater than their percentage of general…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Ah, OK. A religion is a race now. Sorry, that’s profoundly dumb and you should know better. If someone believes and practices Islam as written and taught, they immediately drop 50 IQ points. Just look around at Muslim countries. AKA Shitholes. How many are democracies? What is their standard of living? How many are d…

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@ Jake and Robert

Yada yada, yada…

It is wrong/unethical/immoral to make sweeping generalizations about a group, even Muslims.

Additionally, it’s illogical. It’s the fallacy of composition.

Example: Some people have turned a novel idea into a million dollar business. So, anyone with a novel idea can become a millionaire.

Despite all your…[Read more]

Now that we’re discussing, apparently seriously, whether Muslims are, as a group, stupid, shall we also ask the same about black people?

jakelafort wrote:
’ve wondered whether Muslims are innately lower in intelligence.

Wow…just wow.

All religions are superstition, but almost all advances in the past have been made in the context of some religion or other.

Jews have made many great scientific and mathematical contributions which have changed the source of history, but so h…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I agree, perfection is just a subjective opinion. A living entity just needs to evolve to be the fittest for its environment. That is, it has adapted to survive in the environment it exists in.

And, typically, it continues to evolve toward a perfect solution, rarely, if ever, actually achieving it.

Regarding the Dawkins article…

It is wrong to think, as many people seem to do, that we humans are the pinnacle of humankind, that lions and tigers are the pinnacle of cathood, that the evolutionary process is complete now.

In fact, here’s how evolution works: when a trait helps a creature adapt, it tends to become incorporated; when it…[Read more]

What’s the big deal with virgins? Are they supposed to be better in bed?

That hasn’t been my experience.

Or is it that an inexperienced girl won’t recognize the inexperience of their partner?

@ Jake

So, I guess you’re voting for Trump.

I think that ultimately Israel will have to decide what to do when the Muslim population exceeds the Jewish population. How, then, to remain a Jewish state? Expel Muslims? Exterminate Muslims? Disenfranchise Muslims? Is there a Plan D?

@ Jake

If it’s your belief that two wrongs make a right sometimes, just admit it.

The pager/cell phone attack probably qualifies under most definitions of international terror because there was never any guarantee that only Hamas members would receive them or always be the ones in possession of  them or that innocent civilians would not be killed or maimed.

The nature of the injuries also fits into the terror…[Read more]

Without denying that antisemitism exists, please quit this broad brush fallacy (the fallacy of composition) that all of us who decry Israel’s heavy-handed and indiscriminate conduct of the war.

A few words from that pro-Naxi antisemite—by your definition—Bernie Sanders (from four months ago, so the stats he gives are much worse by now…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Was that poem written by Catgpt?

Actually, I used Gemini AI and I never mentioned dogs, cats, or geese in the instructions. I used frogs and toads, I think. Nor did I mention Haitians to keep me from getting blocked. I’m not sure I would have, but just to be safe.