Like you told me in this post, I will tell you the same thing. It is my opinion just like it is yours. Is it wrong that women get beat, yes. Is it wrong that these two men beat this woman yes. Is it wrong that Muslim women get beat everyday In their countries of course.
What I said, and you failed to see. Let me repeat it, you failed to see, was that bc women get beat in the Middle East, does not make it ok. Especially for us who are allowed to have freedom.
Let me be very clear.
It is wrong to beat women.
I have a wife and two daughters. It is wrong for anyone to beat them merely because they are women.
It was wrong for the two men to beat this woman, not because she was Muslim rather than Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Sufi, Zoroastrian, Taoist or atheist – it would be wrong whatever her faith or cultural background and despite any of them.
It is also wrong to beat children. It is wrong to beat men. It is wrong to beat animals.
The problem with the thought processes of our current PC dictated society is that we are being compelled to see things through specific lenses.
The claim is that Black Lives Matter and those who take it upon themselves to live that statement very quickly begin to forget that ALL lives matter. Gays should not be denied employment or housing, and that should be so not BECAUSE they are gay but because they are human. Neither should Christians who believe marriage is between a man and a woman be denied owning a business or have their home taken from them because heavy fines have been imposed merely owing to the fact that their deeply held beliefs about the nature of marriage are taken to be “offensive” by some gays.
When a report highlights the fact that a Muslim woman was beaten by two men in Toronto and someone makes a comment that millions of Muslim women are beaten everyday by Muslim men, this is an observation. Much can be read into that observation.
YOU took it to mean that the poster was implying that it is, therefore, okay to beat Muslim women; that he might have meant – in your words – “two wrongs make a right.” I didn’t think then, nor do I now, that he meant anything of the sort. That was you reading into what he said and impugning motives on him that very likely were not there. What he probably meant was a question such as, “Why is the news at this time reporting that story but ignoring the fact that many Muslim women are getting beaten daily by Muslim men?”
My point about your math was that if one Muslim woman getting beaten counts for ONE wrong then millions of Muslim women getting beaten should not merely be counted as ONE because millions do not equal one. So, TWO wrongs don’t make a right is simply ignoring that the second wrong is not equal to the first and should not be counted as ONE, it should be counted as millions (if the claim is factually correct.)
That would mean – keeping the math straight – that if we are going to be outraged by ONE Muslim woman getting beaten in Toronto by a couple of men, then we should be – if we want to be proportionately, as opposed to politically, correct – a million times as outraged by a million Muslim women being beaten by Muslim men; after all the WRONG is in the fact that a woman was getting beaten, and that is wrong regardless of who is doing the beating – regardless of whether it is Christian men, Muslim men, Sufi men, Buddhist men, Zoroastrian men, Hindu men or, even, other women.
What precisely do you find WRONG with my assessment of your math and wrong with my observations of your application of the principle that “two wrongs don’t make a right?”
Now you can take my challenge on both points as insulting to you or a slight against your intelligence or you can stick to the points and address them on their merit. This isn’t about you, it is about a statement you made about the observations of another poster. Whether you choose to see it in its proper light or whether you choose to continue taking it personally, that is completely up to you. I can do nothing about that.
Like you said, I don’t know you at all. That is true, which is why my posts have been about your points. You can choose to answer them or not, but let’s not deflect by impugning motives or by claiming to have been “victimized” because your points have been challenged.
