These are my favorite hypocrisies. Feel free to add your own:
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Just recently, Mel Gibson got in an anti-semite tirade. Now he’s feeling the brunt (and rightfully so). Compare that with how one can become an instant super-star in the christian and republican circles by bashing Islam. And we have countless examples of that.
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How muslims get all up in arms when US and Israel kills innocent civilans in Iraq & Lebanon (and again rightfully so). We seem to be killing a lot of muslims ourselves on the basis of shia,sunni etc and somehow does deaths dont seem as horrendous.
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The whole of freedom of speech issue. A lot of people were jumping in joy over publishing cartoons of Prophet and guising their hate with freedom of speech. Those same people then jump up and down, when some professors publish conspiracy theories about 9/11. (Case in point: one professor in colorado and other in wisconsin). There has been intense pressure to fire both professors. I wonder where the freedom of speech is now? Also, in parts of europe just a verbal denial of holocaust can lead u into jail.
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How the effort is made to distinguish killings of iraqis/lebanons vs suicide bombings in israel. In both cases innocents are killed but our friends who advocate killing of innocents in iraq/lebanon make an extremely weak argument that killings in lebanon/iraq don’t deliberately target innocent. That’s just BS since what we have in iraq/lebanon is an extremely callous disregard of life and in a lot of instances there is intentional targeting of civilians too. (check your local Human Rights publications).