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Meltdown@lemmy.world 2 days agoPeople make the voluntary choice to adopt ideologies that promote racism, sexism, etc.
If they don’t agree with the ideology’s hateful and violent tenets, they don’t have to adopt the ideology, but it’s disingenuous to suggest that people who do voluntarily choose adopt those ideologies don’t actually believe in them. Nobody chooses an ideology they disagree with.
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
You haven’t met a lot of Muslims, have you?
Meltdown@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why would you say that?
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Because if you did, you’d learn that Muslims are normal people. Some are assholes, some are not. Some are straight and homophobic, other are proudly queer. You could argue that Islam is bad because it encourages homophobia, that’s an acceptable opinion. But saying that all Muslims are homophobic is bigoted and just plain wrong. The difference between legitimate criticism and hate is not hard to understand…
Meltdown@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If someone disagrees with Islam, that person is by definition not a Muslim. You’re basically trying to have your cake and eat it too, saying that people who ascribe to an ideology don’t actually believe in the ideology they adopted. Unfortunately that’s not how it works in the real world. If they don’t ascribe to the ideology, then they don’t ascribe to the ideology, and that’s fine, but that doesn’t change the nature of the ideology itself.