Reply #67: Thanks for your post/s and your stance against blatant bigotry. [View All]

“I remember fighting these exact same kind of bigoted posts regarding Muslims, just substitute the word 'Catholic' and 'Pope' for 'Muslims' and 'Allah' and most of the left, to their credit, denounced the obvious bigotry of the right.”

Your fight must have been before my time here. Sadly all I have seen is “bigoted posts regarding Muslims” and religion in general and little or no defence.
I’m an agnostic who has had a longstanding interest in Islam, its civilization, contribution to art, music, science, architecture and influence on the West. This interest had me deemed as a Muslim from the outset on this board and every overture to discuss anything positive about Islam was met with hostility and contempt. Islam was a source of terrorism and a promulgator of female genital mutilation…full stop…no further interest or discussion.
As you clearly identify…it is little or no different regarding Catholicism, Christianity or religion in general.

“…with no basis in fact, is exactly what I saw on rightwing boards,…”

Facts appear to be those things that just get in the way of an innuendo laden bigoted narrative.
I’m afraid you would struggle to convince me that this board is other than what you describe.

“The problem is that this kind of lie will undermine any attempt to deal with the real problems as people turn away in disgust.”

As far as I can see it just causes any alternative/progressive voice to turn away from the board in disgust.