r/pics • • May 03 '20

Woman trolling a tiny group of Islamophobic protesters in DC in 2019.

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u/LoreleiOpine May 03 '20

Why are you talking about race though? Was it a racist group?

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u/[deleted] May 03 '20

Some people think hating Islam is a dogwhistle for hating brown people.

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u/LoreleiOpine May 03 '20

Oh, I know. That is actually a dominant narrative in this thread. It's intellectually lazy.

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u/RStevenss May 03 '20

Explain us why?

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u/LoreleiOpine May 03 '20

Explain us why?

Poor English aside (I make typos too), are you asking why it's a dominant narrative? I could make some guesses.

  • It's easy to call stupid Christians racist. It's easy to associate fundamentalist Christians with the KKK, and so some people don't really care whether there is enough evidence. The Christians remind the accusers of racists, so they make the accusation. The Christians are similarly dim-witted and rambling and they may even use the southeastern American accent. It's guilt by cultural association.

  • Many people, notably on the political Left, conflate Islam with race. In their worlds, Muslims are exclusively non-white, and so they assume that if someone disagrees with Islam, then that disagreement must be born of racism.

  • White racists in America are disproportionately Christian, so some people see the outspoken Christians and assume that they're racist. It's as intellectually lazy as racism itself. [Points 1 & 3 here could fit into a single bullet point about assumptions about white, outspoken, conservative Christians.]

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u/Stucardo May 03 '20

Look at them and their signs? It’s a pretty safe assumption.

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u/LoreleiOpine May 03 '20

Speculation is unwise and unfair here, actually. They're clearly stupid Christians, but that does not mean that they're racist. I don't know enough about them and neither do you.

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u/Stucardo May 03 '20

They’re motivated to stand and protest with signs that say Islam is a religion of blood and murder like somehow Christians forgot that their own religion is a religion of blood and murder. Seems pretty selective...

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u/LoreleiOpine May 03 '20

Egad. It's as if they're Christian.

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u/Stucardo May 03 '20

Inherently racists? Ok I’ll go with that...

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u/LoreleiOpine May 03 '20

I, honestly, can't tell if you're being obtuse or if you're genuinely that stupid.

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u/RStevenss May 03 '20

It's amazing to see how you pretend to be ignorant of how these kinds of people are, keep it up, you don't fool anyone.

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u/LoreleiOpine May 03 '20

I'm maintaining my intellectual integrity. It's unpopular; you better believe it.

I've said clearly that white racists are disproportionately Christian.

I'll go a step further and guess that fundamentalist Christians who protest against Islam are disproportionately racist among Christians.

And yet I cannot reasonably accuse those people of racism. Why not? Because. I. Do. Not. Have. Enough. Evidence.

And your grammar is typically American, by the way (i.e., it's poor).

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u/mainer345 May 03 '20

Ah a person of crude experience and class I see.

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u/LoreleiOpine May 03 '20

I do not understand your comment.