Yes, but I think you said something similar about race baiter Trevor Noah.
South Africa has some serious problems of which most of the world is not aware.
If you were to tell me you spent your weekend snogging the school cleaning lady, while sipping on Jack Daniels, eating hog maws and watching Richard Dawkins, I literally cannot express the insane level of indifference and 'meh' I'd feel. Please get it out of your head that you're some kind of rebel, this belated teenage rebellion is ridiculously cringey.
I've known Muslims who were borderline radical. I've known Muslims who have close to zero interest in their faith. I've known Muslims who were devout and austere. I've known Muslims that I'd run into at the club sloshed on Jack and having just blazed a big fat blunt. I've known conservative and progressive Muslims. I've known rational and emo Muslims. Muslim women who were strict and those who were most partiers. I've known Muslims who couldn't stand the slightest criticism of their faith and those that agree with criticism and those that aren't very religious but see anti-Muslim rhetoric as attacks on a grandfather or mother or sister or mentor. Me personally, I wouldn't hold Americans as responsible for following the teachings or practices of Washington or Trump or Kim Kardashian. People are complicated and have their own views on their country or their religion and most take the good things they like and hope the bad things they don't will change.
Mainly I'm glad Aristocrat presents his ideas so articulately and powerfully. Sometimes it feels like I'm reading Kierkegaard or something. I'm also glad he's South African, a welcome change from the typical Afrikaner buffoonery I'm used to seeing from my countrymen. My only question is, why aren't you a lawyer?
And now for something completely different:People who leave the wet tissue pack open. Close it for f@cks sake.
Bad analogy. If someone tells you they are American, you don't know anything about them except that they were born there. If someone announces they're a Muslim you understand that they have decided to follow at least some of the teachings of that religion. Otherwise people say things like 'I was born a Catholic, or 'I was raised a Muslim.'
Really? if you meet a young American person nowadays, they're just as likely to be anti-free speech and democracy.
really? they're just as likely to be what? fascist? communist? that's a massive, massive leap. the vast majority of americans of any age are pro-democracy. i'll admit that there are definitely more fascist wannabes than there used to be
the far right in general is more threatening if only because they actually have a bit of unity whereas the far left is just 30,000 vaguely different political orientations typing paragraphs at each other
also have you ever seen an actual tankie? not on reddit, but i mean in real life. i've seen a few fascists with their SS tattoos at protests, but i've never actually met a tankie who actually wants to do some direct action. it's mostly just people talking online, which your post kind of gets at. on the other hand, the fascists are out there forming militias and shit
They’ve done a great job of infiltrating this small website.