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In reply to the discussion: How the liberal left loses the argument. Ceding criticism of Islam to the Right. [View all]Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)day they certainly put forward a case that convinced a major portion of Europe that they were. Hostile language directed against a frequently alienated minority is very dangerous. I once recall a Polish person who told me when I had asked about anti-Semitism in Poland, "Oh we don't hate the Jews. We just hate what they did to Poland." Talk directed broadly against the Islamic religion without even attempting to separate the more reasonable from the more extreme produces that same sort of logic. A woman I work with just told me that her mother said to her just the other day, "Did you hear what the Muslims did over in Paris?" This is he real effect that cashes out when popular media lets lose in ways where words are not going to separate a people from a broad category they are associated with.