I've heard that thing about "Islamophobia" pushing Muslim towards extremism a few times now. It's why I'm always careful to draw a distinction between 'Muslims' and 'Islamic extremists'. I'd bet money that @BretWeinstein has heard this too.
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Makes sense that experiencing Islamophobia could cause some small percentage of Muslims to turn to Islamic extremism, although there might be disagreement about what percentage of such extremism is caused by Islamophobia. Similarly for white nationalism in regard to white people
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It's less of a cause and is more used as a twisted sense of justification for extremist beliefs. A person has to have it in them to turn to extremism in the first place, I think.
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Feeling & reasoning is not the same thing. There are millions of you Muslim men who can feel one way & act counter to their feelings. Just as there are millions of white, cis, male, etc...that can feel one way & not act of those feelings. We are reasoning, not always reasonable.
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I'm not Muslim.
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I think it's too late in my TZ (GMT+10) to fully digest this. I'll read it again in the morning and respond then. Good night.
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Bret's too polite to point out the obvious
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Saying A sometimes equals B isn’t the same as saying C sometimes equals D
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I think it boils down to reasonableness. If it's reasonable to criticize Islam for being, say, misogynistic, it's not reasonable to get upset by that if you're muslim. If it's not reasonable to criticize white people, it's reasonable for white people to be upset. Subjective.
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Sure, it's reasonable for whatever demographic of people to be upset over generalisations that aren't objectively true. That isn't justification for those groups to turn to supremacy, though. Most reasonable people just want the truth, comfortable or not.
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