One response to “The Deadlier Virus: Western Censorship — This Time in Islam’s Name”

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   tj

   February 9, 2022

   I make it a policy never to agree with the disagreeable. Though, if you think about it, there is an element of disagreement in the ubiquitous symbol of agreement: clapping. Odd that an act of violence to the self in which one hits the palms of one’s hands together hard enough to produce sound is considered a polite and appropriate form of approbation. Clearly the self harm involved is an important feature and not arbitrary. No culture has instead expressed affirmation by turning to the person next to them and, say, loudly slapping them across the left cheek while they perform the same act of violence to the left side of their ritual attackers face. Neither has any culture become so nonviolent that they merely signify strong agreement with a thumbs up. It’s too quiet. Not has any culture embraced abstract signs of affirmation such as one hand clapping, also too quiet along with being too subtle. In the instance of agreeing with the disagreeable, however, a similar hand motion might suffice – the wave. Or maybe that one is more for agreeing to disagree and a sly little thumbs up for agreeing with the disagreeable.

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