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In reply to the discussion: What are western women supposed to do with muslim immigrant males who have been accepted to Europe? [View all]whatthehey
(3,660 posts)The absolute inability of DU to understand the difference between collective generalizations and individual universalities is a source of constant wonder.
Not a single person outside this silly poutrage-seeking echo chamber would bat a hair at "United States elects Obama President" as a 2008 headline. Nobody sane would whine about it being not EVERYBODY in the US because anyone with an IQ above room temperature, in Celsius at that, realizes it is speaking to the country as a collective whole not every inhabitant thereof. Even here if the generalization is about the right group it's acceptable. "Republicans oppose gay marriage" would never bring out aghast cries that some of them don't. But the US as a collective group did elect Obama (not even a majority of it either, just the majority who voted at all) and Republicans as a collective group do indeed oppose gay marriage, and yes Muslim immigrants as a collective group do come from deeply misogynistic and homophobic cultures to varying extents from bad to fricking insane, as we can see from the laws and mores of those cultures. Just because we have come across Mr. Abdi Abdirazek who is a perfectly sweet and noble soul does not mean that his native culture is likewise, or that his fellow immigrants from there will be.