El gato malo does not write to condone violence or intolerance. So I find this is a worthy read to ponder.
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and past a point, “the good ones” stop being worth the price. i hate it. you want ahmed al-ahmed in your country. seems like a helluva stand up guy. but if the price of him is “these other two” the calculus rapidly goes sour.
if you had a wasp’s nest on your deck and you kept getting stung when you went outside, would you say “well, not all the wasps in this nest have stung me, let’s give them a chance?”
maybe once.
maybe twice.
probably none if you have any sense, wasps being wasps, but regardless:
past a point, wasp’s nest is a wasp’s nest, and you cannot have it near where you live.
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an attack was foiled this weekend in bavaria. the plan was to ram vehicles into a christmas market killing as many people as possible. this was planned in and encouraged by the local mosque.
so, you tell me, is this “islamophobia?” because from where i sit, it’s the christmas markets that all need (seemingly with justification) crash barriers to protect them and yet the mosques are all wide open and safe.
if this were prejudice and predation against muslims, it would be the other way around, no? christmas would be safe and prayer rugs at risk. is it “phobic” to fear something that keeps attacking you?
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if not invasion, what?
calling things by their names
