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A Mississippi man accused of destroying a statue of a pagan idol at Iowa’s state Capitol is now being charged with a hate crime.

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[–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago (2 children)
  • Reads "thou shalt not kill" commandment.

  • Declares holy war on indigenous people.

This goes beyond irony blindness, this is straight cherry picking for convenience.

[–] macrocephalic@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The commandment is actually "you shall not murder". There's a distinct difference between killing and murdering; murder can be categorised as only a small subset of killing. I could be misled but I'm under the impression that to old testament era Jews killing a non-jew was never murder.

[–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] butt_mountain_69420@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

1 Samuel 15:2-4

2 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. 3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

That kind of makes it worse...

[–] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago

No killing! Not without permission from your governors.

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

They simply adjust their definition of "people" as needed.