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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)Syntax doesn't change based on subject. "Muslims" is a generalization every bit as much as is "Americans" or "Republicans". Everybody knows the words "all" and "every" and is capable of using them if they mean and wish to express that concept. Without that men murder more people than women, Americans are a religious people, and whites trend Republican, unquestionably all true and not at all negated by the fact that I'm a white American male who is not religious, Republican or a murderer, and pretty darn close to equally opposed to becoming any of those things.
Christ this place is like a middle school. I can't fathom the shallow pettiness that tracks people from thread to thread. I have not the slightest clue and the same interest whether I have "banded together" with the OP, with you, or with anybody else at any time past or will in future. DU is written content, nothing else. I respond to the posts, not my childish image of a poster I have never knowingly met. IF (can you cite by the way?) they said ALL Muslims are a problem then clearly that's blithering idiocy. ALL of nigh two billion anything-ist people are not universally anything but basic tautologies like mortal and carbon-based. If however you just can't accept basic grammar that "Muslims" is far more likely to be used as a generalization, then the problem is not the OP's potential blithering idiocy.