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⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧ This!!!! People will say the worst things when they don't realize who they are talking to. I've heard so many ant-trans things since I appear as my AGAB. People also assume I'm Christian due to being an American with a slight southern drawl and because of that I've heard all kinds of...

Yup. The descendants of the Persians are predominantly Iranian, which is NOT an Arab country, btw. Had to add something based on an earlier comment.... I can't speak for the Jews, but as a closeted trans person I do NOT feel more fortunate being able to go incognito. Hiding a personal...

You are correct. Looks like I had a crossed wire in my memory somewhere. Too many friggin J. Smiths in American history.....

My view, as a godless heathen, is that Jesus, historically, is pretty much the same as John Smith. A real person who convinced a bunch of people he was a messenger from God and founded a cult that grew into something more. In the case of Jesus, I'm pretty sure his closest disciples exaggerated...

No GOOD reason to be anti-semitic, but here we are. There ARE reasons, though, stupid, selfish, and ignorant reasons, just not GOOD reasons. If you don't think Christians can't be just as sutpid, selfish or ignorant as any other group of humans, I've got a bit more than 2000 years of history...

I think the core difference is that the Jews never FULLY left the Jerusalem area, even after it was controlled by Christian and later Muslim governments. The Jewish population in the city didn't regain a solid majority until the late 19th century and the modern state wasn't formed until 1948...

You can support Israel without supporting the current leader of the country. I wouldn't call Trump an ally of the Jews. He, at best, is an opportunist who will cozy up to anyone who he thinks will make him richer or more powerful. He's had white supremacists as advisors after all. He also...

Case in point on the Carter thing... Bit of a confession on my past as well.... I grew up along the banks of the lower Mississippi and the culture there DID affect many of my views. I had views on the Middle East that were pretty negative all around. Downright monstrous in some cases. There...

As has been said, this sort of discussion should be had in the P&R sections. Only time it really should be discussed in this thread is if there's a specific need to help a specific member.

What I REALLY don't get is how he keeps getting re-elected. He has done absolutely squat to help your average Texan and seems outright hostile to most of his constituents.

Abbot needs to go NOW. He's a proper monster, come on Texas, get rid of him before his actions kill even more people.

Also keep in mind that one of the MAJOR differences between the Romani and the Jews is that the Romani generally gave up their original faith(a flavor of Hinduism)and converted to the predominant religion of the areas they migrated to.

Only around 1/3 of homeless people have issues with addiction. Of those the largest addiction isn't meth, but alcohol. It's really not fair to those struggling to act like they are all addicts to hard drugs. It also hurts the prospects of finding good solutions to the issue.

Depends on which inquisition you are talking about. There were several and the early ones especially were simply against anything that wasn't Catholic Christianity. An attempt to suppress Christian groups that weren't Catholic that had sprung up in medieval Europe before the Protestant...

Keep in mind that Robin Williams had JUST been diagnosed with lewy body dementia. He was known for his quick witt and deep cultural intelligence, both of which were slowly being erased by the progression of the disease. He also suffered from chronic depression and addiction issues. The idea of...

As someone who fluctuates between agnosticism and atheism and of European/protestant decent, my perspective on the situation isn't that of someone who has personality been the target of Jewish persecution, so I think I'll bow out and let Thy take over. He's much more eloquent at debating the...

Love the way they integrated the Voyager theme into the sequence. As far as the Doctor goes, yea, his CGI is a bit off, but Picardo only looks right in the flesh. Need I remind you of Johnny Cab?

Atheists weren't scapegoated for centuries the way the Jewish population was. Atheism/Agnosticism also don't have cultural traditions that could be pointed to as 'different' given that most people in those camps can simply adopt the predominant cultural rituals even if they don't believe in the...

True enough, but a good chunk of the issues in the US and Europe stem from that, at least originally. The dynamics of antisemitism in the Muslim world flows from a somewhat different direction, though at the core it ALWAYS boils down to 'fear of the other' and scapegoating, both usually...

It's the magic of vertex shaders. They can do all manner of things to vertices, including modifying their transforms.