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Protest != Violence

6. My high school is great because we have a lot of free time (a lot) But we also have more work than any other school and it gets stressful. I'm switching schools next year for my senior year. :|

Destroyed what? Let me guess this straight, you claimed that I stereotype all Muslims as extremists. I denied that over and over, even explained my posts to you as proof. Which to mention, you never even responded to. You were wrong about me stereotyping all Muslims as extremists. And yet you win? Ugh.

Oh my gosh. I never claimed that extremists and Muslims are the same thing. He claimed I did. THAT is why I called his straw man. I'm not going to play your game of semantics anymore. Have fun, Ghostie.

Alright here, I did stereotype that Muslims do protest. But I did NOT stereotype that most Muslims are violent unlike what your brother is trying to say here: Because yes, my comments WERE directed against a selected people - the extremists! Nowhere did I claim that all of Muslims are extremists - which he tried to claim - meaning straw man argument. Gosh.

If you lay down the semantics, that's actually what I was trying to get at before your brother set up the straw man. I was telling darkmage that Muslims SHOULD protest again to show their disagreement with the extremists. I said "Muslims have a way" because it's true, most Muslims DID protest during that crisis. I am in no way stereotyping them because there were peaceful protests here in Toronto. Again, Muslims != extremists. You're just grasping straws to prove otherwise. And even so, here I am telling you that I didn't mean it that way.

But in your next post, where you said this: So if you clearly denote the difference between extremists and non-extremist Muslims, and you just refer to the generic Muslim in that passage, then you have stereotyped them. Hence, there is no straw man argument. Are you saying most Muslims didn't protest? Protests where huge even in the universities here in Canada. Are you saying they're extremists? I'm not. Just because they protested doesn't mean they're extremists at all.

How? I just said that most of the posts I made after he posted his image where sarcasm. It includes \\

Did you read the quote? When I said it's foolish to hate them, THEM means extremists (hence the quote -to emphasize- to begin with.) Here's the next part. See where I separated most Muslims from extremists? I don't consider them one and the same.

The only reason you have of why people shouldn't offend Islam is this: There's a vast difference between the amount and level of a Christian and a Muslim terrorist. You act as if they are the same, which is why I think it's stupid. See? Your reasoning amazes me. Dude, at least I'm actually laying down my arguments, unlike you for this instance where you totally ignored it by just playing it off as "terrible." Terrible HOW?

Umm? You two are accusing me of stating the Muslim violence in my post that MPC quoted, so violence is relevant. Most of the posts that I made after he posted the Christian image was just sarcasm. And yes, there is a strawman since nowhere in my post that MPC quoted include me stereotyping Muslims. If he quoted my other post, then yes, there would is no strawman.

I saw Locke's post first so I ignroed yours. You're terrible at arguing anyway. Read what I wrote on my previous post. What are you talking about? I was making fun of you for disregarding the numbers and you practically say "oh, the numbers don't mean anything because you're offending these people." Didn't you even see Locke's post about how many times the attacks were made by Muslims? I'll give you an example. I rolled a die 99 times and they all turned up 6 for each roll. What number do you think will most likely turn up on the next roll? See, the logical guess would be a 6. Maybe the game is rigged, maybe the die has more 6 dots than any number, etc. But you, trying to prove to other people that you won't cheat because it's going to offend some people for some reason, bet on a 1. See how stupid it kinda gets? You're letting political correctness blind your logic, which just shows why your brother got all the brains in your family. If by all means my ethnicity has anything to do with this, go ahead and whine about it. But I'm not grasping for straws, you are.

And then proceeded to post pictures and a news link about the violence of Muslims. If that post is not stereotyping Muslims, I don't know what is. I'm not saying you're wrong for doing so, but to claim that you weren't simply ignores the reality of your posts. Here's the funny part, I perceive those pictures as just protests, not acts of violence. So yes, I wasn't stereotyping the Muslims at all. I didn't even mention the word violence yet :? I should've been clearer then I guess. But the only thing that I was trying to say was that Muslims are capable of protesting to show the whole world their disagreement. Why can't they do it one more to prove that they're not "extremists" as most people say?

I'm curious. I read through the discussion between you and MyPurpleCrayon and cannot figure out where his straw man argument is. Could you point it out to me more directly because I feel pretty silly not being able to find it myself. He made it out like I was stereotyping Muslims as extremists, which I wasn't?

Discuss what MPC? The straw man argument that you set up? You posted a whole load of BS when it's not even directed to my point. My point is not that most Muslims are extremists, my point is that most Muslims know enough to relay their views to the world- something they should use for positive gain rather than a negative one. And I'll give you a tip, never play a game of chance. Probability doesn't sound like something you're good at.

You dare call anyone ignorant when you disregard anything that proves you wrong, way to go! 1) I didn't call anyone ignorant, stop putting words in my mouth. 2) Your irrelevant comment about how many people there are did not prove me wrong, you are sorely mistaken if you think so. I don't think the numbers equal each other, but I think the principle of the situations are the same. Just because a large majority of Mexicans are poor doesn't give me the right to say "All Mexicans are poor!" You are ignoring simple logic, quit. Oh man, you're too humble. You totally owned me with your crazy "logic"

You dare call anyone ignorant when you disregard anything that proves you wrong, way to go smartman! That way, you're always right!

I love how you compared a picture of two Christians (are they even?) and seem to think that that equals the thousands of Muslims I posted. No really, I love it.

If all else fails, just right blubber and go to http://thesaurus.reference.com/ and find rhyming words to replace the words in the end of each line

You need to ask? I know Muslims have experience of getting their point across. http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid ... w=nb&mp=wm

Islam "extremists" outnumber any other nation/religion at a large degree. It's foolish to not expect the people to hate them. Especially since most Muslims are too lazy to stand up against these extremists who are hijacking their religion. You talk a lot about ignorance when you haven't exactly shown intelligence, ugh

I laugh by myself

You won't have to load a new page just to post. That would be great actually

Hohto and BlueTear, are you two Muslims?

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