OFF: what's racism?

[Arin Komins]

Could we please kill this conversation?  It completely unrelated to the topics at hand, and is, quite honestly, offensive.

Thanks,

Arin
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Arin Komins                                   
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: From: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List [mailto:BOC-
: L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET] On Behalf Of Jonathan Smith
: Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 8:52 AM
: To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
: Subject: Re: OFF: what's racism?
: 
: 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.
: >
: > FoFP
: >
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