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In reply to the discussion: Saying Islam has nothing to do with the Paris attacks... [View all]MellowDem
(5,018 posts)Your response is pretty obtuse. There are many books written about institutional racism for example, yet many people believe it doesn't exist or that white privilege isn't a thing... so not sure what you're getting at?
The drawbacks I'm referencing are the drawbacks people face for identifying with ideologies that contain beliefs society abhors, like fascism or the KKK, for example. If you identity with either of those, people rightly conclude you believe what you identify with and don't want to join or identify with you, even if you disavow all the bad parts, and even if your group holds fun bonfires or fundraisers for cancer, for example. But make either of those a religion, and how things change fast.
Religion is so privileged that the bad parts are presumed to not exist, and no one who identifies with said religion holds any responsibility for identifying with or indirectly supporting a religion that explicitly tells people to do horrible things and which has many horrible things done in line with said dogma and texts.
In other words, religion should stop being treated as somehow special or different from other ideologies when it comes to criticizing the ideology and those who identify with it. The same standard should be used.