freediver wrote on Apr 21
st, 2020 at 4:45pm:
polite_gandalf wrote on Apr 20
th, 2020 at 6:42pm:
freediver wrote on Apr 19
th, 2020 at 8:41pm:
Everyone knows you are full of poo Greg. So when you say something stupid, no-one expects you to back it up, and no-one is left pondering what to make of it.
See when someone makes an usubstantiated claim such as zero halal income goes towards terrorists - FD demands evidence before ridiculing the claim as "stupid".
However making unsubstantiated claims such as siphoned-off Islamic school funding goes to terrorists is perfectly ok. Just like the claim "all muslims support terrorists". Apparently those are totally different situations.
Perhaps FD could explain the difference. Or not.
But you still agree with me don't you Gandalf? Not even you expect Greg to back up his claim. It didn't even occur to you that Greg might have been telling the truth.
Yes FD, I agree Greg doesn't need to back up his claim. We don't expect people to prove someone's innocence, which is what you are demanding of Greg. Its a well known logical fallacy. Thats what we call proving a negative and it makes no sense. If you say someone is innocent of something, thats actually the default position we take
in the absence of evidence suggesting otherwise. That is our culture and it is the premise of our legal system. This is what Greg meant, as he elucidated after. Unfortunately Greg put it in a way that is arguably semantically incorrect - emphasising the fact of their innocence, rather than emphasising that innocence should be assumed (in the absense of evidence). Like I said, it is a pedantic semantic point that you have unsurprisingly latched on to with glee.
You, on the other hand, casually make stupid claims about muslims based on nothing all the time. Baselessly accusing people of bad behaviour is completely different to Greg's little semantic faux pas, and unlike Greg, flies completely in the face of our custom of innocent until proven guilty.
In short, when someone says as fact someone is innocent, only pedants like you would demand proof since it is so close to the truth (that innocence should be assumed by default). Whereas when you make your routine stupid slurs about muslims, they are claims that any objective and reasonable human would insist requires evidence, and without it is offensive and idiotic.