Sigma mostly said what what was on my mind (fist bump).
re: bigotry and theft. it's not the same parallel and you know it. the paper makes its money off of mocking everything. from monsanto to vegans, from capitalists from communists. they're indiscriminate because their sole point of existence is to piss people off. however, there's a difference between slander (moral prejudice) and theft or usury (physical prejudice). both are harmful in their own way but don't equate one with the other. honestly, i'd rather be tarred and feathered than losing my cash. and if we want to be pedantic, they're more of an "eat the rich mentality" so will actually target the rich over the poor (while making jokes about welfare babies in freezers, but hey, misanthropists.)
Note to self: don't use metaphors with guizonde.But eh, I can admit that my metaphor wasn't the clearest one. Instead, allow me to use a different one.
Imagine that there are two people in front of you right now: a middle-aged person, rather fit, works out a lot and eats well, isn't sick or injured in any way; and an old person, body about to fail on them, sick, organs not working right, has to walk with a stick.
You walk up to both of these people... and you punch them both in the gut with all of your power. The same amount of strength.
The fit, middle-aged person is in pain, obviously, but they're not actually injured per se. You might even hurt your own fist because they're so muscular, hot damn, you could grate cheese on their abs. The old person, on the other hand, isn't so fortunate. Disrupted organ functions. Internal bleeding. Possibly broken bones. Maybe even shock. All that good shit.
Now... have you punched them equally?
And THAT is why "I hate everyone equally" is bollocks.And re: "well they're not
intending to be racist so they're not actually
being racist": it doesn't work that way? Intent actually means far less than people think it means. If I throw a knife at someone not to hurt them specifically but because I think it's funny to throw knives at people, then I'm still throwing a physical knife at someone and it's still going to cause damage because it's a knife and it doesn't care why it was thrown. Geez.
And sure, whatever, calling the Torah stupid isn't anti-Semitic if you're commenting on the irrationality of religious text. But there's a difference between saying "the Torah is stupid because its contents are irrational" and "the Torah is a piece of shit and everyone who believes in it is crazy". And if you're just singling out a single religious group's holy text in lieu of expressing a distaste about the inanity of religious texts in general, then that's, you know, singling out a single religious group. The difference between "the Torah is a religious text, all religious texts are stupid, therefore the Torah is stupid" and "the Torah specifically is stupid", if that makes sense.
...wow, looks I had more to say than I thought. Not all of it might be worded well because I'm running a fever, but hey, had to get back on the saddle.