@cazzie Gawd how long do I need to written out a sentence to be sure you don’t interpret it as all Arabs? You named many Arab nations, you, saying the US is like them on the death penalty.
I said things are never black and white and near in clean. I was the one saying sweeping generalizations don’t make sense in the topic.
I know both of us never think all people in a group all think and act the same, why you don’t know that I don’t know.
When discussions erupt about Israel and the Palestinians you tend to lean towards defending the Palestinians. All I was saying was you defend some of these backwards (for lack of a better word) cultures and their tactics on one thing and then defend them on others. I’m calling America “backwards” there, don’t think I’m saying we are better or worse. I would guess death penalty would fall into backwards by this definition. At least our laws don’t support killing your daughter for losing her virginity. Not that all Arabs or Muslims agree with that, I know they don’t.
I really never ever ever think ALL of any group ever. Having to spell that out all the time is exhausting. When someone makes a generalization about Jews or women or Americans (all things I identify with) I rarely if ever think someone is saying something about ALL Jews, women, or Americans.
It’s just a language thing. Some people need everything clarified all the time to not jump to “racist” and I just don’t go there easily. I assume people are not racist.