• Milady@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The other guy was talking about shit muslim men being like this, and shit muslim men being not a small minority, in syria for example. My (syrian) gf and her mom told me that before they left, her mom was often harassed for not wearing a hijab, pushed out of a bus once. You’re saying that any american is responsible for the actions of their government, which is just not true seeing how bad the us gov is.

    I don’t think it’s comparable, even if I understand that saying “muslim men” is not the best choice. I don’t know of any other word though.

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        Fundamentalists, orthodox etc. People are just lazy and too used to seeing ‘video game wars’ but never really giving it any thought, thinking of Muslims as people - tbf, the US has very few Muslims, and the few they have are mostly wealthy, somewhat liberal and assimilated.

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          Embrace the downvotes with me.

          edit: This is actually very interesting. Maybe the mods/admins should cross reference the downvotes and check if their bot accounts or used for vote manipulation? Because I have comments and posts unrelated to this topic getting downvoted by about 4 points which is bad for those discussions and ultimately Lemmy.

          I’m pretty sure it’s possible to view downvoters with the right tool right? They’re not private like reddit.