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Question: Is the statement is my signature racist?

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Re: What is racism?
Reply #300 - Jan 8th, 2017 at 7:41am
 
Mr Hammer wrote on Jan 8th, 2017 at 7:38am:
polite_gandalf wrote on Jan 8th, 2017 at 7:35am:
freediver wrote on Jan 8th, 2017 at 7:29am:
Only the first one?

What is the fundamental difference between the first and second?


I'm pretty sure I said before that racism necessarily involves the typecasting of particular ethnic or cultural groups. Doctors are neither, they are a profession.

You can call the second 'doctorism' or 'professionism' or some other if you like.
What about "Jews get out of arab lands"? What about "Muslims get out of Australia"?


Neither is inherently racist, but they could be depending upon the logic on which these demands are based on. (eg jews should get out because they are innately inferior to arabs)
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Reply #301 - Jan 8th, 2017 at 7:41am
 
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I'm pretty sure I said before that racism necessarily involves the typecasting of particular ethnic or cultural groups. Doctors are neither, they are a profession.


What ethnic group are Muslims?

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Neither is inherently racist, but they could be depending upon the logic on which these demands are based on. (eg jews should get out because they are innately inferior to arabs)


So "Jews should be kicked out of the middle east because they are inferior" is racist, but "Jews should be kicked out of the middle east because of the history of colonialism" is not racist?
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Re: What is racism?
Reply #302 - Jan 8th, 2017 at 7:42am
 
muslim.

You know the "ethnic group" who are all inbred, all squat to pee, all filthy psychopaths etc..

Its racists who make muslims an 'ethnicity' or dare I say it - 'race' - not me.
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Re: What is racism?
Reply #303 - Jan 8th, 2017 at 7:45am
 
Islam is not an ethnicity Gandalf.

Inbred is not an ethnicity either. Nor is squatting to pee.

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Its racists who make muslims an 'ethnicity' or dare I say it - 'race' - not me.


So you don't think Islam is an ethnicity?
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Re: What is racism?
Reply #304 - Jan 8th, 2017 at 7:47am
 
freediver wrote on Jan 8th, 2017 at 7:41am:
So "Jews should be kicked out of the middle east because they are inferior" is racist, but "Jews should be kicked out of the middle east because of the history of colonialism" is not racist?


not necessarily. As I keep saying, it depends on the logic on which these claims are being made. Its possible (and likely in the case of an anti-semite) that the latter is based on an assumption that jews are necessarily behind the evils of colonialism because of their scheming and devious nature. In that case it would definitely be racist. But this is nothing like what Aussie was saying or even implying.
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Reply #305 - Jan 8th, 2017 at 7:51am
 
So "Jews should be kicked out of the middle east because they are inferior" is racist, but "Jews should be kicked out of the middle east because of the history of colonialism that they are not directly responsible for" is not racist?
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Re: What is racism?
Reply #306 - Jan 8th, 2017 at 7:55am
 
freediver wrote on Jan 8th, 2017 at 7:45am:
Islam is not an ethnicity Gandalf.


Sure it is, your racist buddies you constantly apologise for make it an ethnicity.

What is an ethnicity but the ways and customs of a particular group of people? And moses has spelled those 'ways and customs' for all to see: they all practice inbreeding, all have the same psychopathic mentality, all blindly follow the same warmonger, and all squat to pee.
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Re: What is racism?
Reply #307 - Jan 8th, 2017 at 7:55am
 
freediver wrote on Jan 8th, 2017 at 7:51am:
So "Jews should be kicked out of the middle east because they are inferior" is racist, but "Jews should be kicked out of the middle east because of the history of colonialism that they are not directly responsible for" is not racist?


umm no... try again.

This time use your head.
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Reply #308 - Jan 8th, 2017 at 8:03am
 
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And insisting 'arabia for arabs' - in a clearly stated argument related solely to an anti-colonial/western meddling sentiment - is racist, is quite unreasonable.


Does it not imply that westerners are meddling people?

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Sure it is, your racist buddies you constantly apologise for make it an ethnicity.


How so?

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What is an ethnicity but the ways and customs of a particular group of people?


Like how doctors always wash their hands? How is this any different to Islam? Both are groups that are entered into by choice. By referring to 100% of Muslim men, Moses was specifically excluding an ethnically based subgroup of Muslims.

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all blindly follow the same warmonger


So following Muhammed makes you part of an athnic group?

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umm no... try again.
This time use your head.


What is wrong with that version Gandalf? It implies no inferiority on the part of Jews:

So "Jews should be kicked out of the middle east because they are inferior" is racist, but "Jews should be kicked out of the middle east because of the history of colonialism that they are not directly responsible for" is not racist?
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Re: What is racism?
Reply #309 - Jan 8th, 2017 at 8:11am
 
freediver wrote on Jan 8th, 2017 at 8:03am:
Both are groups that are entered into by choice


Not according to moses - or do you think inbred retards are inbred retards by choice?

freediver wrote on Jan 8th, 2017 at 8:03am:
By referring to 100% of Muslim men, Moses was specifically excluding an ethnically based subgroup of Muslims.


laughable. I suppose men have a choice to be born men too right?
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Re: What is racism?
Reply #310 - Jan 8th, 2017 at 8:14am
 
freediver wrote on Jan 8th, 2017 at 8:03am:
What is wrong with that version Gandalf? It implies no inferiority on the part of Jews:

So "Jews should be kicked out of the middle east because they are inferior" is racist, but "Jews should be kicked out of the middle east because of the history of colonialism that they are not directly responsible for" is not racist?


I told you to use your head FD.

Jews should be kicked out of the middle east because of the history of colonialism that they are not directly responsible for

you are not even justifying why you think jews should be kicked out - let alone offering any sort of opinion on their 'inherent inferiority' or otherwise.
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Reply #311 - Jan 8th, 2017 at 8:17am
 
polite_gandalf wrote on Jan 7th, 2017 at 4:36pm:
Aussie was not being racist because he was not making any claims about the inherent superiority or inferiority of any one cultural group over another. He was simply making a point about the turmoil and suffering that has been caused by western colonialism in the Arab homeland - and how it would have been best if that colonialism never happened. Same with your Aboriginal example - in that case the Aborginal is complaining about the destruction that white colonialism has reaped - and that he wants it to stop. Again, he is not asserting any superiority of his 'race' over whites, or vise-versa. He simply wants the suffering of his people to end.


Gandalf, if someone said that all non-white people should be killed, not because they are superior, but only because it would make their fellow white people better off for inheriting the world, would you insist that is not racist?

Are you saying Aussie was restricting his comments to regretting the past, not about what should be done about it?

polite_gandalf wrote on Jan 7th, 2017 at 11:49am:
freediver wrote on Jan 7th, 2017 at 8:59am:
What if they were just born stupid - would that be racist?

If someone said that people who are naturally intelligent and industrious become doctors, would that also be racist?


Good grief do you actually listen to anything I say?

I explained that clearly - here it is again - most relevant parts higlighted:

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It is the distinction between making a judgment about the thought processes of someone who believes in "nonsensical text", and making a judgement about a group's innate, genetic disposition (they are all born retarded). The former is not inherently racist because it may be referring to someone who is wilfully stupid - like what soren/frank accuses me of being all the time. It makes no specific claims about the causes of that stupidity, and it is above all else a judgement about a person's choice to believe in a 'stupid' religion. Whereas the latter is 'racial' in the sense that it makes a blanket broad-stroke claim about the genetic inferiority that that they were born with, and can do nothing about to redeem themselves.


So if the statement that they were 'born stupid' is made in reference to a specific characteristic of "being muslim" (ie - all muslims are inbred, and therefore all stupid), then its racist.



So, "people believe in Islam because they choose to be stupid" is not racist, but "people believe in Islam because they are born stupid" is racist?

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Not according to moses - or do you think inbred retards are inbred retards by choice?


They are Muslim by choice. Inbred or stupid is still not a race or an ethnicity, even if they have no choice.

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laughable. I suppose men have a choice to be born men too right?


No, but the fact that they are born men does not make them a race or ethnicity.
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Reply #312 - Jan 8th, 2017 at 8:20am
 
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Jews should be kicked out of the middle east because of the history of colonialism that they are not directly responsible for
you are not even justifying why you think jews should be kicked out -


Yes I am - the history of colonialism.

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let alone offering any sort of opinion on their 'inherent inferiority' or otherwise.


Hence, not racist. Or is a statement automatically racist unless it specifically excludes any interpretation of racial inferiority?

Here it is again: So "Jews should be kicked out of the middle east because they are inferior" is racist, but "Jews should be kicked out of the middle east because of the history of colonialism that they are not directly responsible for" is not racist?
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Re: What is racism?
Reply #313 - Jan 8th, 2017 at 9:26am
 
polite_gandalf wrote on Jan 8th, 2017 at 7:26am:
Frank wrote on Jan 7th, 2017 at 7:12pm:
polite_gandalf wrote on Jan 7th, 2017 at 6:59pm:
Frank wrote on Jan 7th, 2017 at 6:29pm:
I do not understand you point of view and I very much doubt that you do. You lost all your arguments along these lines, I am sure.

For example, if you reside in England but do not speak English but only some other language then you are not English. Or if you speak English but with an Australian or American accent - Clive James, say, or Kevin Spacey - you are not English either.



I've had this debate with someone before. I pointed out the absurdly arbitrary (and dare I say - racist) nature of this definition. For example, a black man who immigrates to England from the West Indies can never be 'English' because of where he was born - even if he takes up citizenship and adopts the English culture with gusto. Fair enough - its a chauvinist and unreasonable argument IMO, but it at least has some logic and I can understand it. But then he went on to say that not even his children, or his grandchildren - pretty much going on forever and ever - could ever be 'English' either. Why? Because they could never claim the heritage of an 'Englishman'. Whatever that means. Same deal with those with Pakistani or Indian or Arab etc heritage. So it then becomes nothing about self identity or the culture you adopt (as you seem to claim sometimes) - but purely about what 'race' you are born into. It is a blatantly racist approach specifically designed to keep identities like 'Englishman' or "Dutchman' or "Frenchman" an exclusive club, defined not by what culture you adopt, nor even where you were born - but whose genes you carry. It is a tool that literally has no other purpose than to maintain a stigma on certain minorities - to send the message loud and clear that 'you are not one of us' and therefore 'you are inferior to us'.



You hit he nail on the head despite yourself, Gandalf.  Aboriginality is defined as being accepted by the Aboriginal community as being an Aboriginal, not by any other measure.

The same idea holds for every other cultural and ethic group, including the ones who, unlike aborigines, have passports corresponding to their identity.

You are English when the English accept you as English. You are Australian when Australians accept you as one of them.

This is what you are arguing against but also affirm - this is why you lose every argument.  You are mouthing PC crap and try to back it up with common sense - only you do not realise because nobody, not even you, actually gets the PC crap. You mouth it because you want to be progressive  but because it is daft, you don't - can't - think along its tenets.


What hypocritical drivel.

Fact: women in hijabs and 'bearded numpties' in baggy 'pygamas', among others - ie the very people you constantly rail against as 'not one of us' - are overwhelmingly accepted in western communities. These western societies have repeatedly and consistently supported these people's right to express their own cultural identity, and they overwhelmingly consider this a good thing and not the least bit inconsistent with successful integration into western society.



So they DO have a separate, other cultural identity. That's what the beard and the hijab and niqab say, loud and clear; we are not like you, we are a separate, self-separating, unintegrated group.

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Reply #314 - Jan 8th, 2017 at 9:39am
 
polite_gandalf wrote on Dec 16th, 2016 at 11:40am:
Apparently, the "clear reference to racial groupings" as well as "his desire for genocide" is all encapsulated in that one phrase "arabia for arabs" - correct FD?

Just one problem - arabs are not a race, they are a linguistic group, defined only by the language they speak - not from any genetic commonalities that might class them as a "race" - as understood by the 19th century notion of the word.

Interestingly, when I pointed out this clear contradiction in FD's position, he flayed away in deflection in typical fashion


Gandalf have you shifted from insisting "Arabia is for Arabs" is not racist because Arabs are not a race, to saying it is not racist because it implies no inferiority?

polite_gandalf wrote on Jan 4th, 2017 at 6:45pm:
Clearly words don't have meaning FD, since 'sand negro' is not a race, yet its still racist. And there is no reason to assume the term is 'referring to a race' whenever someone uses it - any more than 'inbred retarded muslim' is.


Are you not assuming that Moses is referring to a race when he uses the term?

polite_gandalf wrote on Jan 8th, 2017 at 7:35am:
I'm pretty sure I said before that racism necessarily involves the typecasting of particular ethnic or cultural groups. Doctors are neither, they are a profession.


Actually you went out of your way to exclude the need for one:

polite_gandalf wrote on Jan 4th, 2017 at 4:02pm:
You are getting closer, and I'm glad to see you finally concede "actual races" (and who knows what that is) are not necessary for racism to exist. That is a good starting point. But when you start with this premise, your continued insistence that racism still requires a race to be specifically defined becomes redundant. Why would it? If you already acknowledge that racism can be based on "fake" races, why can't it be based on other "fake" and abritrary categorisations - that we just label 'defining race' for good measure? Your assertion that 'sand negro' is defining race is just as baseless as my assertion that labelling the entire muslim population inbred retards is defining race. Sure, you can say that 'sand negro' is "defining" a race, but its redundant and meaningless anyway - especially when you already acknowledge it doesn't even matter if its an "actual" race. The only relevant point about 'sand black person', in terms of being racist, is that like all racist terms its a blanket broad-stroke that  reduces a diverse and disparate group of people into one big monolith - homogenised by their inferiority and negative attributes. You can call that 'defining' a race if you like, but its literally no different to any other negative broad-stroking of the entire muslim population - like insisting that they are all inbred and therefore retarded.


polite_gandalf wrote on Dec 17th, 2016 at 3:55pm:
Personally, I believe that racism can be directed at any distinct ethnic, cultural and even religious group - as I've explained many times before.


Why is a professional group not subject to racism but a religious grup is?

polite_gandalf wrote on Jan 3rd, 2017 at 12:08pm:
no, you're not listening to what I have already explained. Prejudice and hate on the basis of fabricated categorisations -  such as "all blacks" is the epitome of racism - precisely because the categorisation is arbitrary and wholly unscientific. The commonality in all forms of racism is what they call 'outgroup homogeneity' - prejudice against members of a "group" that are perceived to be all the same. In this case, all the many different cultures and ethnicities who happen to have black skin are reduced to the one type. In moses' case, reducing all muslims to a monolithic group of inbred, psychopathic retards. Thats not to say it isn't based on an element of truth - a minority of muslims are inbred, and rates are higher than anywhere else.


Gandalf here you are also excluding any ethnic basis, while including the examples of doctors being born intelligent and industrious, Muslims being born stupid, etc

polite_gandalf wrote on Jan 4th, 2017 at 7:17am:
No, you're not paying attention. I didn't say the stereotype "all muslims are stupid" - on its own is not racist. I said the logic that "all muslims are stupid - because Islamic text is nonsensical (and only an idiot would believe it)" - is not racist. Crude yes, ignorant yes - but not racist. Of course if you extend that logic to say that the only people who are naturally drawn to that nonsensical text are those that are inbred and therefore born retarded (ie "all muslims are retarded")- then it would become racist.


Gandalf how is this any different to the example of doctors being intelligent and industrious?

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Thanks Frank. So when inbred people from a specific region have inbred kids, for hundreds of generations - so the kids resemble their people (ie all retarded), not the people on another continent, and with the resemblance comes socialisation, behaviour and the rest (eg all psychopathic, all depraved, all squat to pee etc)


When Moses referred to 100% of Muslims, do you think he was referring to Muslims from a specific region, or do you think he included white Muslims like you?
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