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Research news writer, editor @ an R1 university (all opinions are my own)
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I would have a negative disposition toward a Muslim man who would force any woman in his life to wear a hijab against her will. And my use of “negative disposition” is broad to cover hatred, hostility, and fear, not annoyance towards someone’s actions.
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But, going back to your point of, if you disagree with Islam/Islamic beliefs, then you’re Islamaphobic. Islamaphobia is not an expression of disagreeing with tenants. Islamaphobia is a negative disposition toward a person because of their faith.
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These were the verses I was hoping you would reference. Again, where is the “demand”?
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Please share the verse from the Quran that “demands” hijab. And the religion, you should know, is Islam.
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The value is bodily autonomy. Muslim women should have the right to choose to wear hijab or not.
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Fair
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Bought it. I also own Gulag and Twilight of Democracy. I love your work! Thank you for doing it.
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Mediocre white men like Hegseth have had to realize that for most of history their predecessors benefitted by not having to compete with women and racial minorities. This is all an effort to return to those glory days and call it meritocracy once again.
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Also, he is a co-sponsor of the SAVE Act, which could disenfranchise millions of people, mostly married women who took their husband's last name, from voting. A woman stood up and gave him holy hell for it. It was great.
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www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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Half of us care about truth, democracy, and decency. The other half cares only about themselves. It’s a civil society vs. hyper individualism that ironically is very tribal.
I feel terribly for how we’re abandoning the world, esp. our NATO allies and Ukraine. On behalf of America, I’m sorry. 😢
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Hillary and Kamala were right about everything, but Americans notoriously hate smart women.
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If someone gets your SS and other identifiers to open a line of credit in your name, they would have to submit to credit check. When they requested it, a freeze at all three credit bureaus would deny the check. That stops the identify thief from being able to use your SS for their monetary gain.
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More often those who are picked for leadership are picked because they are the best followers.
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My thoughts exactly! Specifically, blue states pay far more in taxes to support programs in red states. The fed threatening to withhold disaster aid from blue states unless they obey is extortion.
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the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
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Agreed
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Of course, the problem is that most Americans aren’t motivated to vote to protect their democracy. That is how foreign of a concept it was to them before this election even took place.
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Like, people who didn’t vote and said of Harris, “Oh, I still don’t know enough about her,” those people deserve everything coming to o them. No excuse. To protect their democracy, they only needed to decide not the felon.
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For every other candidate, I would agree with you. For Trump, there is no comparison. He was not fit. Period. Anyone who just crawled out from a rock and heard one iota of his moral depravity, knew that he was a felon, should have voted for Harris. There was no moral equivalency.
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Not sure I follow your meaning. You educate yourself and then you vote; to do neither is complicity. To do the latter without the former is complicity.
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I agree. I do not want irresponsible voting, and that is why I’ve advocated in the past that if people are not going to educate themselves, then they should not vote. But, they should have a duty to educate themselves (primary duty), so they can exercise their vote (secondary duty).
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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At a bare minimum, citizens of a democracy must always, always exercise their right to vote as a duty of living in a democracy. More importantly, they have a duty to *educate* themselves before they vote. Do neither and you deserve to lose your democracy.
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I hold willful stupidity as a type of malice. Its origins are complacency and a belief in the politics of inevitability that comes with taking for granted the freedoms of democracy that a minority fought and fights for.