lumping together a conservative columnist with a radical cleric as basically the same doesnt really make sense to me at all that seems entirely rhetorical
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How so, specifically? It seems like the only important difference is that in the US such people have much less power, absent that it's just an ingroup/outgroup distinction between our conservative commentators and their radical clerics
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how about specifically the thing I keep repeating publicly caning women who dont cover up does that make a big difference? would our christians ever beat ppl who dont cover up?
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they don't have the power to do so, but some (likely from the same groups who support the death penalty for abortion) would absolutely attempt to enforce modesty codes if they had the ability to do so.
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be specific if they were, say 80percent of the electorate would woman get tickets for wearing skirts? would they get thrown in jail? would they get publicly beaten?
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who knows? I mean, you are hypothesizin about what strong believers of an abrahamic faith that don't have that power would do if they had that power. Like, there's only one way to find out, but it gonna be bad
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half the country is christian already you cant imagine if they were 80percent instead weather they would beat woman in public or not??
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Replying to @turrible_tao @0knaomi and
it would start with throwing things, not beating. beating is more intimate, it's something you do to discipline the ingroup, throwing things is better for designating outgroup
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Replying to @chaosprime @0knaomi and
do you think the US gov, if eighty percent of its voters were christian would "throw things" at woman who wore skirts yes or no
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this isn't nearly reductive enough, why don't we start talking about what would happen if 80% of the population were believers in abrahamic faiths instead
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our track record with 100% committed ethnoreligious enclaves on this continent is certainly stellar
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Replying to @chaosprime @hikikomorphism and
im not arguing if its stellar, im arguing its considerably less bad then other bad things
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Replying to @turrible_tao @hikikomorphism and
i mean, christianity is probably slightly less awful on average than islam, but i dunno why it's useful to draw value judgments from comparing milquetoast technical christians to wahhabi stormtroopers
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