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darkknight109 posted...

For being such a massive difference, very few people actually bother to understand it.

This statement can apply to basically anything. People rarely bother to understand anything beyond a superficial level. It's totally irrelevant to the topic at hand and what I was saying though. Let me break down into a couple of simple examples to illustrate the difference, though, because you're right for whatever reason people do seem to have trouble separating the two:

- "Fuck Muslims, they should go back to where they came from" <- Wrong

- "I think the Quran teaches a despicable ideology" <- perfectly alright even if potentially inflammatory


Now you could probably make a good argument that if someone says the second quote just for the purposes of trolling on the Internet then they're probably just an asshole. You could probably also argue that there are better ways to go about criticizing it, ones that aren't quite as inflammatory, but the point remains that ideas should never be off limits from criticism.