OFF: what's racism?

[Jonathan Smith]

So what are the English? "Fish 'n' Chip Halfwits"? :) Americans "Hamburger
Halfwits"?

Rather than '-isms,' we classify people by their eating habits? People who
eat Halal food are a *very* large group.

Yes, it is ironic that the Israelis constantly cry 'anti-semite,' when they
mean anyone who criticizes Zionism, whilst they murder fellow semites. There
are Russians, Ethiopians and others who are not at all semitic living in
Isreal.
2009/4/21 M Holmes <fofp at holyrood.ed.ac.uk>

> Arjan Hulsebos writes:
>
> > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:42:00 +0800, Jonathan Smith wrote
> > > I assume you meant the Palestinians? Perhaps wrongly. Do you talk about
> > > 'Kosher Halfwits' too?However, I guess this is not the place for
> > > this type of political discussion.
> >
> > The Palestinians are Semites, and so are the Jews. It always amuses me
> when
> > Semites are called "anti-Semites".
>
> Indeed.  I'd bet for those living in Israel and not recently immigrated,
> it'd be impossible to even genetically distinguish between Jews and
> Arabs.
>
> > People cry racism, fascism, nazism, whatever-ism far too easy, and mostly
> when
> > it's plainly wrong.
>
> Indeed, but being wrong isn't usually a problem when they can be
> politically correct.
>
> > Mike's statement might be insulting to those who eat Halal,
>
> It shouldn't be if they can read English. If someone called our Scottish
> terrorists (one who couldn't even set fire to his own shoes, and one who
> managed only to set fire to himself) "Haggis Halfwits", I wouldn't take
> offence just because I eat haggis.
>
> > but it has nothing to do with race.  On the other hand, Mike likes to
> > call followers of some leftish ideas and/or misconceptions "fascists",
> > whereas, obviously, they're not.
>
> I dunno. I suspect many of the local socialists in our union have gone a
> long way down the route to being national socialists. They certainly
> hate those of the same religion which the nazis did.
>
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