Goes without saying.
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Replying to @aral
If it goes without saying then why don’t we broaden the conversation instead of picking on the thing already being picked on?
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Replying to @bmf
The assumption being that some mythical “we” doesn’t. I can’t speak for the “we” but my criticism of religion is a broad church :)
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Replying to @aral
Great. Then why don’t you broaden the conversation instead of picking on the thing already being picked on.
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Replying to @bmf
Again, my conversation over the years has been and is broad.
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Yet I’m never asked to broaden the conversation when I criticise Christianity, only Islam.
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Replying to @aral
That’s because Christianity is not the thing being picked on.
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This is the same reason why black power is not the same as white power. They do not have the same kind or amount of power.
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Replying to @bmf
I feel you have a very privileged American viewpoint on this. I come from a Muslim family and I’ve lived in societies where Islam’s powerful
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Replying to @aral
Fair enough. Not trying to criticize your career. Trying to add some context to a tweet, as I do to all such tweets. Sorry if I overstepped.
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Not at all; there’s always value in civilised discourse :) And plus, if we’re not to debate with friends, then with whom? :)
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Replying to @aral
Good point. Nobody but strangers and straw men, I guess.
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