Whomever posted this sign is a damned genius. Pure master troll.
The sign is as generic as it can be. It does not say Islam is bad or good or even mild. Yest people are having conniptions about it, why exactly? I had a ball seeing people find explanations as to why the sign is insulting and validate their indignation.
Deep inside they understand that Islam’s treatment of women is atrocious and no way in hell you will see them wearing a burka and having to walk to the mall because they are not allowed to drive under Islamic ruling. On the other hand, to criticize the minority du jour is not kosher and it is downright racist to imply that looping the clitoris is barbaric.
Basically they are choking in their own “wokenes.”
Flawless.
Can you say “cognitive dissonance”?
“Doublethink” is also appropriate.
I suppose it’s one way to teach Godel’s incompleteness theorem to people who hate math…
Next up: Islam is right about homosexuality.
You could do a whole series: Islam is right about…
…women.
…homosexuals.
…banks.
…slavery.
…the Jews.
They would agree with Islam about “the Jews.”
Yes, they probably would. But they aren’t allowed to say that aloud.
This is very much in the same vein, but done even better than, the “It’s Okay to be White” trolling from a year or so back.
I’m very tempted to post these around Portland.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the same people were involved in both.
Some of those people looked like were going to have a seizure trying to explain why this is bad.
The only way to make it better is to put it on a shirt and walk around town with it.
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What’s funny about this is listening to all the people interviewed on that TV item, sounding offended or worried about this, but utterly without any ability to express why they are.
Indeed, “cognitive dissonance” sounds like a good explanation: they know in their PC guts that this is something bad, but when they analyze it they run into a bunch of contradictory impulses, between their “islam is peace” notions and their feminist ones. It puts a real stress on the “ability to hold two contradicting views simultaneously”.
Wow
Islam means peace.. nice post.