re: #783 Interesting Times

This isn’t about me and my use of a downding. If downdinging a bunch of comments is a crime, then I am not the only one who is guilty. Good luck with that but I learned it from you.

HOWEVER, back to what was really being said.

I used this as an example when I pointed out:

“did PublicityStunted have to show how her feeling about the word she was offended by was bigoted?”

Did you have to prove that you were offended? Well, you should not have. I think it is as offensive as “Fundie”. There are a whole bunch of slurs that seem to rhyme with that. Now just because Christianity is not a race we don’t call it racist. Just like those posters in the 2001-2008 era kept saying slurs against Islam weren’t racist. However they were bigoted.

SO, when someone says:

“Fundie is a perfectly normal word, which I use to refer to religious fundamentalists of all religions, and sometimes to certain extreme atheist activists. There’s nothing bigoted about labeling fanatics in a pejorative way, since it is based on the actual extreme views that they hold.”

They are saying that the person they referred to as Fundie was a fanatic that they were comfortable in labelling in a pejorative way.

A person is “labelled” as “extreme” because of their religious views.

Any of that sound familiar to you?