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Right Wing Commenters: 'The Muslim Rats Need to Be Exterminated'

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DCMC4/03/2011 12:40:04 pm PDT

re: #549 Charles

Well, it’s kind of the ultimate appeal to authority, wouldn’t you say? Picking out a quote from a sacred book and using it to prove that you’re not being disingenuous, seems kind of chickenshit to me.

Not to put too fine a point on it.

re: #549 Charles

Not an appeal to authority. The Talmud isn’t sacred, incidentally. I’m not using that quote to prove I’m not being disingenuous - it’s a handy little principle to show the virtues of not judging others harshly (and of making sweeping judgments). It’s the same principle I invoke when telling everyone around me not make generalizations like “all Muslims are terrorists” even though my workplace consists of studying how radical Muslims quote the Koran to justify terrorism.

And what is this “chickenshit” nonsense? Why am I being subjected to ad hominem attacks on this liberal, tolerant blog?