04-11-2017, 04:50 PM
neophyte wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
http://de.reuters.com/news/picture/celeb...UKRTX3505T
These are photos that Reuters posted this week of Christians around the world celebrating Holy Week. You're going to see some pretty unusual and surprising and maybe even frightening looking stuff in there, and probably nothing like you experienced at First United Methodist Church.
Exactly. You have a comparison, something you have seen yourself. But if you have no Jews in your community (like most of rural America), then what? Nothing in the Reuters caption says the pictured event is uncommon amongst practitioners of Judaism.
Why are practitioners of the Moslem faith so feared in the US? Maybe because there are so few moslem communities for reference, and the only things that make the news feeds are attacks by jihadists?
It's not the responsibility of international photojournalists at Reuters to reduce willful ignorance and bigotry among Americans. Honestly, you're letting hateful people off the hook like they're helpless puppets not to mention insulting the intelligence of millions of Americans. If someone has access to these photos on the internet, they sure as hell have access to plenty of information to learn the facts about other cultures. Reuters is under no obligation to produce a Dick and Jane slide show about world religions for people you and Steve imagine to be helpless rubes, and how horribly insulting it would be if they did.