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In reply to the discussion: FLASH: U.S. Ambassador to Libya, 3 Other Embassy Staff Killed in Rocket Attack in Benghazi [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)It's the same reason that white people don't have the same visceral reaction to "honkey" that black people have to "nigger." Standing in a position of privilege and power gives you that sort of ability to brush aside the insults.
And much as in the history of race relations, we see the "rational" Christians engaging in casual, even wanton cruelty against the "irrational" Muslims, without even noticing. We've killed a hundred and fifty thousand (Edit: oops) Iraqis, and displaced four million more. Alongside them we've killed fifteen thousand Afghans and displaced who-knows-how-many. we don't have to scream "GLORY TO JESUS," but everyone knows that the people flying the planes, dropping the bombs, spends at least the occasional Sunday morning praying to the god of the New Testament. Certainly hte people who command the attacks do.
But when the situation is reversed - when the Muslims kill someone - Oh boy, that's just unforgivable.They're savages! Wild heathens! There's no excuse, no excuse at all! It just goes to prove that those filthy barbarians really ARE just what this film says!
I imagine that perhaps, if it were powerful Muslim Nations exerting extreme military, economic, and political forces against christians, insults to Christianity would be met with violent lashing-out, just as is the case in reverse here. In fact I KNOW as much, because it's happened in history.
But thinking about power differentials is complex and might be a little unsettling. So you just crawl back and enjoy the movie that tells you that what you already believed is true.