Islamophobe?

Wake said:

The term "bigot" is also used incorrectly so much that it's lost most of its meaning.

So I disagree with a liberal view and that makes me a bigot? Riiiiight.

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It's not the views you disagree with. It's the opinion you're putting forth that makes you a bigot. Example, I don't like hockey. You like hockey. The fact that I don't like hockey does not make me a bigot. However, the minute I try to stop people from playing hockey because of some prejudice that I have against it, I become a bigot. In other words, stop complaining.

Hatuey said:

It's not the views you disagree with. It's the opinion you're putting forth that makes you a bigot. Example, I don't like hockey. You like hockey. The fact that I don't like hockey does not make me a bigot. However, the minute I try to stop people from playing hockey because of some prejudice that I have against it, I become a bigot. In other words, stop complaining.

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So... when one person disagrees with another, they should jsut live with it and not try to convert or swing them over to their own side of the situation? Really? How ****ing boring would THAT be!

Degreez said:

Are you kidding?

You really don't see the connection?

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Let's say someone cannot read a spanish language sing that says PELEGRO!, next to a cliff with a broken fence. Common sense would tell them not to get too close, even though they cannot read the sign.

Hatuey said:

It's not the views you disagree with. It's the opinion you're putting forth that makes you a bigot. Example, I don't like hockey. You like hockey. The fact that I don't like hockey does not make me a bigot. However, the minute I try to stop people from playing hockey because of some prejudice that I have against it, I become a bigot. In other words, stop complaining.

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So when liberals push the notion that taxpayers pay for government funded abortions, that does not make liberals "bigots?" Any action that liberals pine for that are forced upon non-liberals, by your logic, can paint you as a bigot.

Let us stop the playground names. To be a bigot you must think yourself better than others. I don't; I merely disagree and want it stopped. Just like "-phobe," "bigot" is also a flawed term whose meaning be damned and altered for use against those we dislike.

I do value language and grammar. However, one can be factual and intelligent without such... though it destroys crediblity in my honest opinion.

Whovian said:

So a Christian who is against the building of a mosque at a particular place is a utomatically a bigot, while a Muslim against the same mosque is not? PLease... enlighten us as to how?

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No, there's nothing automatic about it. He used the qualifier "most" before saying "bigots", which is important. I would certainly agree that a sizable portion of the people who are so vehemently against the Islamic community centre/mosque/whatever being built in New York are only against the building of that community centre/mosque/whatever due to a dislike and bigotry towards Islam.

However, there are also undoubtedly other people, Muslim, Christian, Jewish or anything else, who are against it for better reasons. So, do not twist his words into a partisan statement, when it was clearly just a commonly held and validated theory about the irrational hatred towards Islam in the United States.