# Stoning in Iraq

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoning-in-iraq/404684>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [May 19, 2007, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoning-in-iraq/404684 "2007-05-19T02:53:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Fat\_Chance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8baadc/32.png) [@Fat\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fat_Chance)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoning-in-iraq/404684/141 "2007-05-23T13:14:13Z")

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[QUOTE=Sailboat]  
Looks like _twice_, by my count. 😛

So 2 is not “several” is your argument? You’re sure no homophobic attack ever involved 3 attackers?

Or community and police? I present to you [the Stonewall riots](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Riots). That’s not just an incident, that’s probably the foundational moment of the modern gay rights movement.

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Yes, you were able to find a cite from 40 years ago. If you haven’t noticed, American culture has changed a bit since then - gay bars are no longer illegal, police do not raid them, etc. This besides the fact that the riots are not even remotely close to the same type situation as honor killings and stonings.

[QUOTE=Sailboat]

Neither does “their” culture _as a whole_. Subcultures within their culture do…as have subcultures within ours.

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So now your argument is that I said “culture” when I should have said “sub-culture”?? I apologize…

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**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoning-in-iraq/404684/142 "2007-05-23T15:54:32Z")

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[QUOTE=Fat Chance]  
So now your argument is that I said “culture” when I should have said “sub-culture”?? I apologize…  
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Yeah.

Your whole argument has been to conflate what some people did into a critique of the entire society. You definitely shouldn’t have said “culture”, that’s what’s wrong with your argument. Ideally you should have stuck to the guilty parties and do-nothing witnesses.

Sailboat

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