venepe on 15 March 2012
| lordmandeep said: "It's like what Bill Maher once said: Not all Republicans are racists, but if you are racist you are probably a Republican (I'm paraphrasing). " Using that Logic then there is nothing wrong with saying "Not all Muslims are Terrorists, but all terrorist are Muslim" You can't have it both ways... |
The logic works but all the same conditions have to be met. In the Republican case, Maher was talking about the 2 parties that control American politics in the present. A specific situation that is concentrated in one specific area of the world; and reducing racism to that of caucasians towards non-caucasians.
You Muslim example doesn't work because you made it too broad. But if you were to say "not all Muslims are Terrorists, but if you are a terrorist in the Middle East then you are probably a Muslim", then the logic would have some sense.
"¿Por qué justo a mí tenía que tocarme ser yo?"
