Offensive ice
Posted Feb 3, 2013, 12:05 PM UTC
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That is completely stupid.
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How dare you insult islam.
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Behead those who say Islam is not a peaceful religion?
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We will murder them with our peace
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I will fucking peace you to death with my kindness and tolerance!!
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Not if I murder you with my democracy first!
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Aaaand you're not far from the truth.
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- I'm Muslim and I don't think that looks anything like "Allah". Arabic letters require very specific turns and that turdy swirl did not have them. 2) Muslims, calm the frig down! This is why the world hates us! Not everything is about us you know. Somethings just have slight similarities. 3) You cannot be on reddit and get offended.
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In all fairness, this story is A) Old and B) In The Sun, so it's not even necessarily true. I also think the above guy was being sarcastic =]
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I wanna say so much more but I'm scared I'll get kicked out of my own religion.
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- well put. 3. Of course you can. But you get over it and click something else while learning the types of clicks not to make.
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What's 2. ?? The suspense is killing me!
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Oh look, the extreme minority giving a creating a bad name for the average majority.
Sorry buddy.
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To be fair I wouldn't care if it was a picture of allah exactly.
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Allah isn't some stupid deity. He has no definite shape or form so putting a pic of him on ice cream is impossible
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This is why the world hates us!
You do also believe the rest of us go to hell, right?
That's a contributing reason.
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You cannot be on reddit and not get offended.
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I wonder how much of this is a small group of crazy Muslim fanaticals complaining about this in turn creating a media story that in turn makes everyone else assume all Muslims are nutty.
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If it helps, not all americans (and canadians? there seem to be lots of canadian redditors too) hates muslims. Only those who cannot distinguish between all muslims and religious extremists would hate all muslims. One of my closest friends is a muslim man named saad, and he is probably the coolest dude ever. Even though I am not muslim, I can still appreciate the beauty of much of the religion. Admittedly there are a lot of americans who do not differentiate between all muslims and religious extremists but it seems to be getting better.
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Gee, I hate when people like you feel the need to defend your own religion. Blaming a whole religion for what a few customers did in 2005 is just ignorant. You shouldn't even have to write that comment, but now you must because every shithead who looks at this post will just blame muslims as a whole.
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Of course I feel the need to defend my religion. Its my religion; my beliefs. Muslims live their day-to-day lives following the guidelines of Islam. What's sad is extremists have ruined the religion and how its perceived. So if I ever feel that I need to either criticize or defend it, I will.
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Its OK, he's not insulting Islam (because the stories not true) he's insulting The Sun which is perfectly fine.
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But, why would you insult the sun??
Sun worship is fairly simple. There's no mystery, no miracles, no pageantry, no one asks for money, there are no songs to learn, and we don't have a special building where we all gather once a week to compare clothing. And the best thing about the sun, it never tells me I'm unworthy. Doesn't tell me I'm a bad person who needs to be saved. Hasn't said an unkind word. Treats me fine. So, I worship the sun. But, I don't pray to the sun. Know why? I wouldn't presume on our friendship. It's not polite.
-George Carlin.
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HOW DARE YOU MISS THE SARCASM!!! YOU WILL BE BEHEADED INSHALLAH!
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I did miss the sarcasm... =( But I think I've come to far to back down now.
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thats right tell him, tell him never to insult a religion that could in no way, shape or form be criticized because of its sarcasm amazing womens rights and rights in general, its beautiful words that could never be interpreted to anything that could lead to the harm of non-believers, and a religion that respects no only religious rights but sexual rights as well.
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Goddamit, Islam, I just want my ice cream. Can you go find a war to declare somewhere else? Honestly, you're worse than the American evangelicals.
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No, no, he's not saying Islam is stupid. He's saying Muslims are stupid. That's much less offensive...I think.
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My hat is bread your argument is invalid!
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Ignorant sand monkeys
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should be all nuked
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With love
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you have been issued a Fatwa by r/Islam and will be executed by internet firing squad
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turbo sloth
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That's my name, it's already been worn out!
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Yes, it's been pointed out before.
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pew pew pew
ploock squish dribble
thump
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But why does he need any vowels?
^^^^^^^^^^As ^^^^^^^^^^in ^^^^^^^^^^Fatha, ^^^^^^^^^^the ^^^^^^^^^^short ^^^^^^^^^^a ^^^^^^^^^^sound.
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Just like seeing Jesus in a potato chip :P
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In fact, production is increased in order to find another potato Jesus.
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Yeah, because Burger King is so going to suffer from this.
Take your ridiculous Islamophobia elsewhere. Reasonable people see fundamentalists and radicals for what they are, and choose not to feed the flames.
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Grilled cheesus.
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Clearly, both the ice cream "swirl" and transcription of name Muhammad both look like a pile of wet shit.
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Same thing happened to Nike. It's very stupid.
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I want to Upvote you, but considering you're at 666 Upvotes right now, I think you'll understand, given the context of this conversation.
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True considering alif, the first letter on the right, never connects to following letters.
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Article from 2005
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Printed in the Sun, a notoriously crappy newspaper
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Burgerking responding to a few customer complaints (there's always a few)
*4. Ice not banned but packaging changed at BK's request
Result; Haters on Reddit making shitty statements about all Muslims. Who's actually overreacting here?
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heh head on over to r/britishproblems to find out more about how crap our tabloid newspapers are. unemployment rising? BLAME IMMIGRANTS. dead rodent on the road? BLACK PLAGUE RETURNS... its such bullshit its almost funny.
Yet it always manages to get morons in up-roar like it has done here. thus backing up your "who's actually overreacting" :P
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Yeah our tabloids are mostly about stalking celebrities.
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And people having bigfoot's love child.
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Well there's only like one of those and it's so obviously a joke paper...
Please don't tell me people actually think it's real.
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That was brilliant. I just added this to my Amazon watchlist to watch more. Thanks for sharing!
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IF ONLY DIANA WAS HERE
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dozens of complaints
The Sun at its finest.
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No, the Sun at its finest is page 3.
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Giggity.
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Still not as bad as the daily mail.
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It's the same drivel but The Sun is aimed at those with a reading level of an 8 year old. At least the Daily Mail uses words with more than five letters, that aren't nouns.
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Unfortunately, this tricks daily mail readers into thinking they are intelligent.
Edit: The daily mail are also notoriously bad with numbers.
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Literally dozens!
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This week Burger King were literally inundated by a letter...
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Before people go bashing an entire religion, they should realise that this is published in The Sun, Britain's answer to Fox News. Pay what's written here about as much credence as you would pay Fox News saying that violent video games cause mass-shootings.
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The Mail is Fox News. The Sun is Rush Limbaugh.
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Upvote for common sense. Enjoy!
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Calling it a "newspaper" is technically correct but gives it far more credit than it's worth.
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Shitpaper?
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I'm pretty sure the actual overreaction is still the people claiming a clip art ice cream cone is going to trigger the apocalypse because a guy in a turban was once so great that nobody is even allowed to speak his name anymore.
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That doesn't even make sense.
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The only overreaction in this entire scenario is Muslims getting upset. Is that dumbed down enough for you?
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Yeah buddy, maybe you should inform yourself a wee bit more. The guy you're talking about is called Mohamed, I think them Muslims are fine with it if you want to mention his name. It's the bit about them not having a sense of humor about painting his picture (or that of their god) you might be confused with.
See that's the problem with being an ignorant bigot, you end up making an ass of yourself when you don't know what you're talking about.
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This was really a thing? I was expecting it just to be a mock article for humor. It doesn't even remotely look like the word for "Allah".
Whoa now, the squiggles formed on the top of this ice cream package when tilted 90 degrees counter-clockwise look like Arabic; I'd better enter defensive mode.
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BAM! Ya'll just got LOGIC'D!
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Looks like you had fun trying to format numbers and bullet points on reddit
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Dat feel when.
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Crappy newspaper? Page 3 says otherwise.
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both.
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UPVOTE!!
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Haters on Reddit making shitty statements about all Muslims. Who's actually overreacting here?
Until the first redditor cuts off someone's head for offending them, your statement might have some validity. Until then, it's still definitely muslims overreacting.
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I make shitty statements about all types of religions. Muslims don't get any special treatment.
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As long as you don't do it based on dated, purposely twisted, flimsily backed information from an unreliable source, I'm fine with that.
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As long as you don't do it based on dated, purposely twisted, flimsily backed information from an unreliable source
I stay away from the bible and quran.
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I WISH I WAS ANYWHERE CLOSE TO THIS BRAVE.
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That was gold!
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Can I interest you in a Torah?
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The ice-cream picture looks more like a turd to me.
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In fairness, how do you draw a swirl of chocolate ice cream and not make it look like a turd?
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But turds don't actually look like that! Why did they use that shape for a turd in the first place?
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It's a conspiracy of the hard candy cartel against ice cream manufacturers.
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now I want a mafia styled GTA game based on that idea
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eh... that is kind of what turds look like if you're back country hiking and shitting into a cathole.
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Ehh. Not even then, really. I've never seen a turd look like that, not even close. I just don't get it.
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you've never pooped in the woods have you?
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I hunt and camp a lot. Of course I have. It doesn't form a pile like that.
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I beg to differ.
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Yeah, well in fairness, Islam is pretty much a big steaming pile of poop anyway..
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Yes. Yes it is. But that isn't my point.
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Thats how you write God in Arabic you dumbass. Open an arabic bible
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Make it look more like Allah.
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Can you manage to make a DQ curl on top of your turds?
I'm impressed. (in a weird, gross sorta way)
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Idk buti know how to tell the difference.
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So, I know how to write 'Allah'? Sweet.
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That's the point. Looks like someone is pissed that the word Allah looks like a turd.
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Perhaps there's something more to this...
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What? That its just a load of shit?
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...the name looks like a wet turd... I'm sure you can add this up.
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I don't think its BK's fault that allah gets confused with a turd. His followers behave like pieces of shit.
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same here.. and exactly what doesn't upset Muslims these days? Welcome to the freakin western world Muslims... we upset each other, that's what we do... all the fucking time. Case in point, ... The Internet.
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maybe bk ices are allah
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except only one is real and gives you a headache. The only just give you a headache.
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...the Internet is anti-islam... It must be blown up.
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Agree, so ipso facto - Mohammed looks like a turd. I got no complaint with that.
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We're going to need to take you into protective custody now.
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Ya, thats what they are upset about
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Somebody needs more fiber in their diet.
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TIL: the word alla in arab is based on the shape of a turd
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its a goddamn dookie swirl!
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So you're saying it looks more like a turd than a Kurd?
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inshallah
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That's funny because Islam is for shit.
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That's probably because you don't speak Arabic.
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Exactly! Just like allah
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Does anyone notice that the symbol for Allah has a little penis in it?
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Theres a message there i think
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hey, don't say that shit about allah!
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Mmmmm sacrilicious
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It's religious icecreamism in my opinion
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Your blasphemy will get you everywhere.
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I know I shouldn't eat you God, but...
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Why? Catholics do it all the time.
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Because I am neither a Catholic nor a cannibal.
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Read in Homer's voice. Now I want waffles.
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I know I shouldn't eat thee...
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"Mmmm sacrilicious"
FTFY: Mmmmm, sacrodelicious.
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''Well maybe Allah should stop looking like a chocolate turd'' -the king
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As someone who can actually read arabic, the icecream actually reads more along the lines of "lalalah".
The muslims who took the times to get upset about this need to pull their heads out of their asses.
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That's offensive to parts of christmas song verses.
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Ah, yes. The Franco-Muslim prophet L'Allah.
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But then what would they wipe with?
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With their heads up their asses, they'll be closer to Allah.
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That's actually how their language sounds, too.
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Lalalah -> Allah -> Mohammed.
Anger justified.
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Bob Loblaw's Law Blog
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So 99% of Muslims?
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Oh for fucks sake! I don't give a shit if they're offended. Especially in such a trivial case as this, the problem is not us disrespecting their religion, the problem is Muslims having a unique sense of entitlement about anything that could be deemed offensive to their precious religion.
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Muslims having a unique sense of entitlement about anything that could be deemed offensive to their precious religion.
Totally unique. Not like Christians ever act like their religion should govern the way we all live.
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At least when Christians see Jesus on their toast they don't get all pissed off. They call the news and let the whole world know.
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An art show, in New York, had a six foot tall statue of Jesus made entirely of chocolate. Dozens of Catholics protested and had the show cancelled. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/11669242/
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Well would YOU want to eat Jesus?
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You should make a post with this, and see if they get as much hate as muslims get.
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Dozens of Catholics protested. And if that was a statue of Mohammad, tens of thousands would have violently rioted.
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How many people died?
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Relevant: http://youtu.be/1wfamPW3Eaw
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But Christians are right, just read the bible.
Extreme Sarcasm
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As a man who was privately schooled K-12, I can vouch for this.
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While I agree with you, we shouldn't hold back criticism for Muslims being stupid just because other religions are stupid too.
We have to take it on a case by case basis. And in this case, it Muslims acting ridiculous.
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In this case out is burger king accruing ridiculous after a dozen complaints. And that's assuming the story contains any single grain of truth, which is probably unlikely
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This is more relevant in the US; Christianity doesn't affect British lives any where near as much as it does over the pond!
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I'm pretty sure the problem here is actually that OP is linking to an article from The Sun. Which is pretty much one of the worst tabloid journals you'll ever read.
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Not with nearly so much violence these days. Forgive me for being more threatened by Achmed the suicide bomber than Sally the disapproving soccer mom.
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How many times have people been killed lately because a Christian was offended? It's apples and oranges. You can't compare them at all.
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Christians tend to have this warped sense of entitlement as well as Muslims.
For example banning evolution from being taught in public schools. http://www.christianpost.com/news/kansas-school-board-candidate-wants-to-ban-evolution-from-schools-77273/
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And then of course there's this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21306006
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This is a much better example than the one I found.
I also remember how upset people were with The Da Vinci Code back in the day.
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So why the fuck aren't they complaining about the actual cocktail Virgin Mary, which was the inspiration for the name of those crisps?
Goddamn at least be consistent with your complaints. (and by "your" I mean religious fuckers that froth at the mouth over nothing)
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Probably because it is everywhere and is impossible to get rid of. In that article it is easier because the target is one entity, a company.
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While that is also ridiculous, it is not entirely comparable. One outright mentions something from a holy book, the other just looks like a turd which apparently kinda in some way'ish looks like how you spell Allah. Both are incredibly stupid tho.
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We are'nt talking about the theorie that contradict the bible, its the fucking logo of a god damn ice cream from Bking. The muslim who started this should get his case worked on: he's a fucking sociopath
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It's public schools, meaning both situations are effecting people outside of their religion in negative ways so they both are related in that context.
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Yeah like getting fisted in the ass is related to picking your nose. Both are stupid, but saying the ice cream logo resembles how you spell Allah is on another level of butthurt.
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EDITED in bold to clarify: The trend I've noticed is Christian entitlement seems to be about suppressing free / contradicting thought, while Muslim entitlement is just "I'm offended". In other words, "what I've noticed" means "what gets publicized", "what makes the news". Not just my opinion, but my opinion influenced by what information is available.
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Teaching kids evolution = good healthy education
Teaching kids religion = OH MY GOD HORRIBLE BRAINWASHING EVIL BAN IT EVIL
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Teaching kids ABOUT evolution and teaching them that science is always mutable, able to be overridden by future discoveries: Good healthy education.
Teaching kids a specific way of thought that hasn't changed for 2000 years and telling them to never doubt their teachers, to just have faith: Encouraging close-mindedness.
Being wrong in a science--> Still being able to know the correct answer if it comes up when you are still alive, maybe even be able to be part of that team that comes up with more "correct" science.
Being wrong when seen within a Christian viewpoint (AKA heretical)-->GOTO Hell
Obviously it's much more complicated than that, jeez I guess I can't express my opinion on reddit even when I have a disclaimer.
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"Your ignorance is not equal to my knowledge."
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How many people were killed though?
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No one died in either of these stories.
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No one ever does when Christians are offended, but quite often people die when Muslims are offended.
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Oh for fuck's sake! Religion!
FTFY.
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I think the real problem here is the way you're generalizing the world's 1.5 billion Muslims into a handful of people who complained about a fast food container.
I'm about to blow your mind, but - you're no different than some crazy old guy who talks about how black people steal all the time.
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Let me be this first one to say who gives a fuck about Muslims
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So fucking brave.
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That's fucking hilarious.
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Can I post this
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I guess so, it's not even mine anyway.
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lol
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Is this all you do? Stalk people in your spare time?
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Let me be the third one to say who gives a fuck about Muslims
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I like ice cream.
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C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER
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Apparently this is the one we're downvoting guys.
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Yeah, FUCK that guy!
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Let me be the fourth one to say C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!
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If you ever want oil to make your car run, you'd better START giving a fuck. Let's remember that the Muslim community was actually quite a peaceful, successful entity in the form of the Ottoman Empire until Eastern European countries such as Britain, France, and Russia decided that they owned the place just be-fucking-cause.
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Yea but then they came to the USA and Canada and started acting like they are better than us and they are not
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I don't think that's an accurate depiction at all. Especially not with the generalization.
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He sounds like a European xenophobe. I really hope it's not coming to that here.
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Reddit. Promoting cultural harmony since something 0 something.
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Promoting cultural harmony
im sorry have you been to this site
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Whoosh?
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WTF? I do. They are people.
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The problem here is a just a FEW dumbasses make noise, and because BK responds, the newspaper prints a story that plays into the angry muslim stereotype, and people respond by saying fuck ALL Muslims.
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I wish I could agree with you. I joined an Islamic message board just to understand them more and get to know their religion and values.
Believe me. It's way more than a "few". Even people that I befriended and considered to be very moderate, would end up really surprising me with some real extreme opinions/actions.
The problem is that Islam, Jehovah's witness, etc are very evangelical. The people at the core of these religions see the world as belonging to their religion and they are shepards trying to round up the lost sheep that have gone astray.
That's where the entitlement comes from. In their mind there is one true way for the earth to be managed and they are fighting for this higher cause.
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"few" relative to the fact they are nearly a quarter of all humanity. (23%)
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This is not a good thing at all
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...getting worse.
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I'm sure you'd find that on any religious message board.
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That's fair. I'm sure the type of person that joins a religious message board is a little more....engaged? than the average member of that religion.
When I joined this particular board, there were those that were clearly fanatical. I expected to find them. Then there were folks that seemed very like-minded to me and just happened to be Muslim. It would sometimes shock me when these same people would make certain comments.
The one thing that struck me as odd about Muslims was that they tend to blindly trust and protect other Muslims and they are very hesitant to condemn things or say "that's not what our religion is about". If they don't agree, they just keep mum on the topic or even give the benefit of the doubt in clearly terrible situations.
All in all, it was an enlightening experience. I'm glad I did it. (I spent about 3 years there)
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The difference is that most religious people wouldn't kill for it. When I was in my 80% Muslim middle school there was a story about a woman in the Middle-East being executed for naming a teddy bear Muhammad, and when people were talking about it, they said "she named her teddy bear Muhammad?" rather than "wow, she was killed?"
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The only solution here is to bomb them to tolerance.
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Islam and Jehovah's witnesses are both cults. If you truly want to learn more about the dangers of Islam, you should read a book by a former Muslim called "Gods War On Terror" by Walid Shoebat
He explains their mentality to a T.
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As an agnostic, I guess every religion to me is technically a cult.
But I tend to classify newly contrived religions with little or no historical value as cults. This certainly includes Jehovah's Witness in my book. But I would disagree about Islam. I consider it to be a legitimate religion. I guess that is a matter of opinion though.
That's not to say I follow Islam, but I can respect it as long as they do their thing and it doesn't affect me.
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Nah. I respond by saying fuck all religion. I mean come on. What in the actual fucking fuck? Crazies be all around us.
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It's so typical of the sun to blow this out of proportion. They are always printing this rubbish. They love to stir up tensions, especially when it comes to Islam.
I bet if a 100 Christians (rather than a dozen) complained about a product that then got pulled off the market the sun wouldn't report it.
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If one hundred Christians complained about a product that then got pulled off the market, The Sun was probably behind it.
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the difference is that with Christians the complaining would be the end of it, with islam there is no way to say people wouldn't get killed, we see it all the time all over the world.
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In Iraq you can be executed for being atheist.
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I'm from the middle east, trust me you can be killed for stupider stuff than that.
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I think Allah should be banned for looking like ice cream.
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I think penises should be banned for looking like Allah
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first funny, non-offensive comment in this thread.
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Well, I don't mind offensive but thanks.
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I should have said "intolerant" or "racist", not that nit-picky things like complaining about an ice cream lid should be tolerated, but people generalizing a religion and being wholly intolerant of them.
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Sorry... I feel like a fraud accepting your compliment though. I'm not a fanatic or anything but I've done my share of criticizing religion.
I don't dislike all religious people(some of my favorite people are strongly devoted Christians). But I do dislike most religion.
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The amount of stupid shit that religion gets away with is ridiculous.
What's next, outrage at the letter 'W', because it makes up half of the word Allah in Arabic?
Oh! I know! Outrage at spoken language at all, because it sounds similar to speaking a holy language...
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uW)
There she is!
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Don't forget the 'w^'/
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Am I seeing things? Is this a comments thread in a sub with 3.2m readers, where almost every comment is "fuck Muslims"? Is there some level of incredibly witty irony I'm missing here?
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I think it's because it's ridiculous that "Muslims" (quotes because that's a horrible generalization) would be offended by something this silly. The swirls are clearly intended to resemble ice cream. The comparison to the word "Allah" is vague at best, and even then, not offensive.
In reality, there may have been a couple of douche-bags, who happened to be Muslim, use their religion as a basis for being offended by something silly. Unfortunately, the word "Muslims" is being used to describe them instead of something more accurate like "tools".
In short, fuck generalizations. This is where the bad kind of racism comes from, people.
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I am honestly stunned by it right now, I actually thought I'd somehow accidentally subbed to whitepower or some such other place. The pure and blatant racism discrimination in these comments is astounding.
EDIT: So in a thread where people are complaining about Muslims being nit-picking and oversensitive, it's been drawn to my attention that the offensive comments in this thread aren't racism, just regular old discriminatory hatred.
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Reddit hates everyone who gets offended by non-offensive stuff.
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Seriously! What the fuck?
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It's not racism
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Fine. It's hate. But hate is neither acceptable or an opinion.
And believing all Muslims are extremists is an opinion, but an extremist one.
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Saying that Islam as a religion is "an affront to all humankind" is the most offensive thing in this entire comments thread. Congratulations.
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It's time to face the truth. Reddit is not what it was a few years ago, the cancer is here.
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And what a fair and unbiased source that appears to be.
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"Upsets muslims"
WHAT THE FUCK DOESN'T??
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The date is September 2005 so it's probably been on Reddit before; and it's from The Sun, which probably means one person probably said "Haha, that looks like it says Allah," to which the Sun replied "MUSLIMS OUTRAGED, PROTEST BURGER KING."
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It actually was just one person who saw the vague similarity, one Rashad Akhtar from High Wycombe.
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I like how when anything on the internet says "Muslims hate this" or "Muslims are offended by that" you all assume it means ALL Muslims. Right, because the newspaper and internet know the opinions of every person part of the fastest growing religion in the world, right. Of course that's the case.
You people think Muslims are nuts worshiping God. Yet you don't see how demented you all are following a piece of paper.
This world... Good grief.
Edit: Downvote this, I don't care. You all know this is retarded now that you hear it like this.
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I agree that media are playing a shadow game here, but in the meanwhile news exploit have become the norm.
Common sense, broad culture and humor are your best friends.
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Yup. Seems to be the case.
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It's motherfucking ice cream. That shit was good.
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Volkswagen is next.
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Nothing like being prompt with this post. Date on the newspaper, September 16, 2005.
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I am Muslim and i don´t give a fuck if it looks the same.
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Thank you.
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Offended Muslims offend me.
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people offend me.
OFFEND ME!
PEOPLE SCREAMING OFFENSES
BITCH
.... Me!
ME!
AVENGE ME
We don't take kindly to folks who don't take kindly round here.
People getting offended by others being offended offend me.
You're joking, but it really does make me extremely angry. I wish people would just grow a pair and suck it up. If something offends you, be on your merry way.
it looks like one of those shitty newspapers who make up shit like this to try to increase anti-islam sentiment in the uk, the worrying thing is that it seems to be working, they do the same sort of shit to try to get people to hate the poor too, basically they are shit fucking shitstirring phonehacking immoral cunts who can fuck off.
This actually happened in the UK. Look it up.
nothing was banned.
WHo said anything was banned? Not me, not OP, not the paper. The point was that someone was offended, went to the muslim council of brotherhood, and they lobbied to get it changed. I didn't say anything other than it happened.
lol muslim idiots
It's still likely that they cherry-picked the incident to make some political point, though, like those blogs that publish every incident of black-on-white violence across the nation to forward their agenda. We get this image of offended Muslims all over the place when it might have just been one or two people.
It wasn't just one or two people. the muslim council on brotherhood took up the issue when it was brought to their attention. It was not just one or two people. I understand what the paper is trying to do, all I did was comment that it did indeed happen. This was not just one angry customer, nor was it one paper making it up. It points to a larger problem, be it muslim, christian, jews, any time anyone is offended because of religion it is absurd, especially to those that view religion as nothing more than tools used to control people and make money.
Muslims in the UK do a pretty good job of increasing anti Muslim sentiment. You are absolutely right.
and i bet you don't consider it racism either!
Nice shit analogy there Ricky.
i didnt make an analogy
It's a trailer park boys reference.
I remember as kid a lot of people wont buy coke because people though the symbol was offensive.
Faggot.
cheers for noticing!
Unless you can rally a mob that can destroy life, limb, and public property, no one cares for you being offended.
this is essentially my point. no matter what happens, someone is always offended about something, and then people essentially get crucified by the media if they don't apologize or change their policies. i hate most political correctness with a fiery passion rivaled only by 1000 suns.
Not a sunrise, but a thousandsunrise, a morning filled with one thousand suns. The rising of 89shaggy's rage rival!
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I'll offend you... gently
i promise
"You find me offensive? I find you offensive for finding me offensive."
-Eminem
Stephen Fry's opinion on this.
As somebody who can fluently read Arabic, I completely disagree with the semblance.
If you don't give a shit, someone else does, and no harm comes from the change; then why do you give a single flying fuck?
No harm? I suppose we'll just forget about the freedom of speech. Society is now suppose to censor itself to everyone. The entire idea behind the amendment is "don't like it? fuck off". Now it's become "don't like it? oh I'm sorry, it won't happen again." I understand they have a right to be offended, but that shouldn't mean individuals and corporations have to go around appeasing every single person or group.
That's a staggeringly bad understanding of the First Amendment. Which, by the way, is there to say that THE GOVERNMENT will not abridge or punish speech. It in no way whatsoever says "there are to be no social, commercial, or personal consequences for anything you could possibly say" - just that the government itself won't punish you.
This isnt in the US.
You're overdrawing the conclusion quite substantially there. People and corporations can elect to adjust how they express themselves according to their own values. They are not being forced to - rather they have opted to. It is literally no different than scrapping a new and unpopular recipe in favour of the original. BK listened to consumer feedback and acted accordingly.
They'd have been perfectly entitled to keep their packaging as-was, chose not to, and now a bunch of people are getting all fraught over the top of a fucking ice cream tub.
Because the media definitely wouldn't have had a field day with "BK refuses to change packaging to appease Muslim protesters." I think you're taking this too literally. It's like one of those shitty ultimatums parents give their children to get them to stop doing something. Like telling you that you can keep doing what you're doing, but you won't get to see daylight for a week. Or my favorite "if you can afford cigarettes, you can afford rent somewhere else."
Sure BK didn't HAVE to do anything. But without it, they would have lost quite a bit of business. So basically, yes they had to do it (to keep business as usual).
I'm offended by your comment. By your logic no harm would come if you just deleted it. Go ahead, then. I'm waiting...
It harms my freedom of expression as I view it.
BK has different pressures to consider, market forces being one of them. If the benefit it gains is neutral or positive according to their values as an entity then it's irrelevant to you.