Good morning ☀️
"A Bullshit Term" - now that was a wonderful construction.
There are groups appearing at the moment that want to combat so-called "Islamophobia" - some of them go so far as to keep lists of people - by name - whom they believe suffer from it.
Because notice the word. Phobia. An anxiety disorder. Something irrational, pathological, something you treat, not something you debate. Already in the concept itself the conversation is settled before it begins - the one who criticises is not arguing, he is suffering from something.
We know this model from other reality- and science-denying groups in the culture at the moment. That is why we know that that is precisely what it is - bullshit.
But it is worth pausing at, for you who have not thought a bit about it. Because we do not treat other ideas this way. You can criticise socialism without getting a diagnosis. You can criticise capitalism, Christianity, liberalism, communism, Nazism, Buddhism, entire systems of thought, and be met peacefully with counter-arguments instead of a case number and a prescription for pills.
That is how a FREE society maintains itself - ideas stand trial, people do not.
But with this one fragile construction of ideas, it is all turned around. The world is put on its head. The idea is protected. And Man goes on a list.
I have for years criticised Islam as an idea system within the Western civilisational model, because fundamental parts of it are antagonistically structured and cannot possibly be reconciled - its architecture, its relationship to power, its collision with the principles the West is built on. So I will presumably end up on such a list sooner or later.
But the interesting thing is not whether I do.
The interesting thing is that such lists exist.
Because you do not keep lists of people because you are confident in your own arguments.
You keep lists when you have run out of them.
Remember that when someone - and they will sooner or later - calls you that, when you will not go on your knees for their bad ideas and arguments.
Have a lovely week, friends.
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