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other instances: why do you hate us? (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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[–] 27 points 3 years ago (20 children)

you're the political equivalent of abnoxious edgy atheists

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  • [–] 109 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    alex-no-supplements obnoxious

    alex-supplementsabnoxious

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  • [–] 67 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    there really is an emoji for everything

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah basically ngl, just without any of the smug post 9/11 islamophobia that new atheism used to mix in

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    Difference is that your religion doesn’t really matter as long as you keep it a personal belief, it only becomes an issue if you try to make your religion political and use it in the public sphere to control people or abuse those within it. At that point it’s no longer a religious issue it’s a political or criminal one.

    Political issues matter, they determine the allocation of resources and who lives and dies and who has power. They determine who gets an education, who gets to have kids, etc.

    So caring a lot about politics and pushing your political view unapologetically makes a lot of sense. Pushing your personal religious (or irreligious) views is just annoying and cringe and betrays a lack of understanding about what actually matters and impacts the real world.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    The difference is atheists may be correct, but nowadays whether you're religious isn't, on its own, a huge prediction factor in how you affect others' lives.

    When your politics is lib or reactionary, when you're racist, or nationalist, or just deliberately ignorant and loudmouthed about world politics, you are by definition actively and deliberately conspiring to make peoples' lives worse. Those people affected are often minority groups, and/or friends, family and comrades. But whatever kind of human it is, it should be obvious why it's personally important to us to oppose that.

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