Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

[shavenferret]

Ryuu96 said:

shavenferret said:

In the past 30 years or so, some groups have committed most or all of the events that the majority of public would call terrorism.  It should be no small wonder that this leads to people giving a knee-jerk reaction to news events and casting suspicions upon said groups.  So, not sorry.  

So it's okay to assume everyone who isn't white is a Muslim or an immigrant? Okay to assume every American shooter is trans? Then on top of that, it's okay to assume every murderer is a Muslim/Immigrant/Trans? With zero facts? We just assume things are true nowadays with zero facts, you're saying that's okay? That's how the world should operate?

I'm not talking about assumptions.  I am saying that with terrorist events, that certain groups have tended to have a greater likelyhood of being considered terrorism.  As to the other cases, I haven't thought much about them.  You are the one getting this discussion between us into a variety of other topics that I haven't spoken of at all.     

The morality of making assumptions is another issue altogether.  I think that facts are either true or false.  If there is a false fact that one considers through knee-jerk responses or anything else, it isn't a moral lapse necessarily.  This is especially true when certain groups have shown a history of repeated events.  Eventually you start to throw blame where there shouldn't be any.  It is what it is.  But, just being suspicious of a group that has had some behavioral issues is not an immoral thing at all.  I think that the real blame occurs when you can't be impartial when it reaches the courts for a criminal case.  

Myself having an opinion isn't anything to worry about it, because opinions are like your butthole.  We all have them and they all stink.  So, please get over this idea that not being totally impartial is wrong.  

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