Dear Liberals: Being Critical of Islam Is Not Racism

[Blue_Tires]

179. And to that I would add -- Dear Liberals:

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When some terrorist group or government in the Middle East does something really despicable, please *STOP* with the universal knee-jerk one-line refrain of "Yeah, but America invaded Iraq!/bombed Syria!/droned a wedding!/shelled a hospital!/etc."

1. It's old, trite and I'm tired of seeing it daily -- Step your games up

2. It's intellectually bankrupt 'whataboutism'

3. It only serves to cheapen the lives lost and creates this one-dimensional discourse where no DUer is allowed to ever speak out or criticize something because at some point in time his or her respective government killed somebody

4. It's an indirect approval or justification of said act, and "Yeah, but America--" doesn't magically negate or cancel out the story we're discussing at the moment

5. You look like a hypocrite when terrorism occurs in certain places that aren't related to some backlash against U.S. foreign policy (i.e., Nigeria), and because you know your "Yeah, but America--" boilerplate doesn't apply, you let those threads drop off the page without a peep even though you're a mainstay on *all* the other ME threads