Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Double Standards

  • Another Double Standard

    Perhaps you noticed this too.  President Obama refuses to use 'Islamic' in connection with the Islamic State or 'Muslim' in connection with Muslim terrorists.  But he has no problem with pinning the deeds of crusaders and inquisitors on Christians.  This  is a double standard. Surely, if no true Muslim beheads journalists or crucifies children, then…

  • Cops, Muslims, and a Double Standard

    Suppose there are two groups, the As and the Bs.  Some of the As are really bad actors.  And some of the Bs are as well. But most of the members of both groups are tolerably well-behaved.  Suppose there is a third group, the Cs.  Some of the Cs comment on the bad behavior of…