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Reply #345 - Jan 10th, 2017 at 12:56pm
 
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You haven't even attempted to counter the fact that cultural minorities in the west are overwhelmingly accepted by society


He is talking about Muslims Gandalf, not cultural minorities. Can you see how that might not be the same thing? You have made this error several times already.

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How absurd can you get? Only in your world could the statement "kill all non-whites" be said in a context that "specifically excludes superiority as a justification". I thought I told you before to use your head FD.


And yet you happily do the same for Arabs. In any case, the question still stands. Try being little less Muslim and giving a straight answer. If "kill all the non-whites" specifically excludes superiority as a justification, will you insist it is not racist? Or will you stick to your guns of deciding for yourself what is racist and deciding for yourself what a racist actually means in order to maintain that position?

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No. I used your argument to demonstrate the logical inconsistency in it. You then quoted me stating that argument and claimed that it was my argument. It would of course have been very easy to understand its not my argument - given my repeatedly stated point that I don't even believe in races.


You claimed that the fact that Arabs are a linguistic group is a flaw in my argument that "Arabia for Arabs" is racist. This is your argument Gandalf, though it is understandable you are so keen to disown it.

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Seriously, how many times am I going to have to explain this FD?
It is *NOT* a cultural/ethnic group to *ME*. But it clearly is as far as racists are concerned.


Once will do. I did ask you to confirm this earlier. Here is another question you ignored: when Moses referred to 100% of male Muslims, do you think he intended to exclude white male Muslims such as yourself?

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They construct a whole array of false cultural/ethnic - and yes 'racial' markers - like psychopathy, misogyny, inbreeding and inbreeding related retardedness - and use those stereotypes to engage in racism against muslims.


None of those are racial markers Gandalf.

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Thats what I've always said FD - racism is based on cultural/ethnic/racial constructs of the racist. Which is what you started to go with too - but then went back into nonsensical territory by asserting that you can judge on behalf of the racist and declare what they do and don't consider a 'race' for racism purposes. ie the invented term 'all muslims are sand negro' can definitely be racist, but 'all muslims are inbred-retarded' can't be - even though both are cases of bigotry based on broad-stroking an entire "ethnic" group.


When Moses referred to 100% of male Muslims, do you think he intended to exclude white male Muslims such as yourself?

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And yes, absolutely, if a racist perceives doctors to be a cultural/ethnic/racial group, they can be 'racist' against them. I just can't conceive of it happening though.


If a person perceived that all non-whites should be killed out of a sense of self-interest, but did not perceive any form of racial superiority, would they be racist?

Is this consistent with your claim that "Arabia is for Arabs" cannot be racist because Arabs are a "linguistic group"?
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Reply #346 - Jan 10th, 2017 at 1:52pm
 
freediver wrote on Jan 10th, 2017 at 12:56pm:
He is talking about Muslims Gandalf, not cultural minorities. Can you see how that might not be the same thing?


I deliberately referred to all minorities because Frank is an equal-opportunity racist - he objects to all multiculturalism, not just muslim. He objects to saris and turbans and BO from hindus - just as much as tinted beards and hijabs. He gave a particularly colourful description of all these "offensive" displays  of muslim and non-muslim alike a little while back - which you incidentally agreed was racist. I believe thats what I was thinking of when I made the above statement. In any case, it makes no difference - he is not countering the fact that *MUSLIMS* are overwhelmingly accepted into society, or the fact that they are overwhelmingly successfully integrated.

freediver wrote on Jan 10th, 2017 at 12:56pm:
And yet you happily do the same for Arabs. In any case, the question still stands. Try being little less Muslim and giving a straight answer. If "kill all the non-whites" specifically excludes superiority as a justification, will you insist it is not racist?


Aaaaand I'll simply repeat - "kill all non-whites" could not possibly exclude superiority as a justification. I certainly haven't done anything of the kind - happily or otherwise. The only possible way you could interpret this is if you fallaciously equate "arabia for arabs" as "kill all non-arabs". Which it very clearly isn't.

very "muslim" of me I know...

freediver wrote on Jan 10th, 2017 at 12:56pm:
You claimed that the fact that Arabs are a linguistic group is a flaw in my argument that "Arabia for Arabs" is racist. This is your argument Gandalf, though it is understandable you are so keen to disown it.


Well done FD - that certainly is my argument, and I stand by it 100%. What was your point again?

freediver wrote on Jan 10th, 2017 at 12:56pm:
when Moses referred to 100% of male Muslims, do you think he intended to exclude white male Muslims such as yourself?


Why are you asking this? What possible point could you be trying to make?  I seriously doubt there was any "intent" in moses' statement - other than the intent to be as offensive as possible. I don't credit him with properly thinking through his logic - in fact it is a statement without any coherent logic - wouldn't you agree?
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Re: What is racism?
Reply #347 - Jan 10th, 2017 at 2:18pm
 
freediver wrote on Jan 10th, 2017 at 12:56pm:
If a person perceived that all non-whites should be killed out of a sense of self-interest, but did not perceive any form of racial superiority, would they be racist?


Now that's a question, FD. Genocide's not racist, eh?
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Reply #348 - Jan 10th, 2017 at 2:21pm
 
polite_gandalf wrote on Jan 10th, 2017 at 1:52pm:

Aaaaand I'll simply repeat - "kill all non-whites" could not possibly exclude superiority as a justification. 


Well, G, King Herod did try to kill all Jewish baby boys.

Not racist, of course. Sexist.
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Reply #349 - Jan 10th, 2017 at 5:24pm
 
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I deliberately referred to all minorities because Frank is an equal-opportunity racist - he objects to all multiculturalism, not just muslim.


All I saw in the quote you were responding to is Muslim. This is true regardless of Frank's other beliefs. Are you saying that you are ignoring what Frank says about Muslims, despite quoting him, and responding instead to what you think his broader views are?

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Aaaaand I'll simply repeat - "kill all non-whites" could not possibly exclude superiority as a justification.


Why not? Why can an extended familial type of self-interest not be the sole reason? After all, race is simply a broader version of family and tribe identity. Are you saying you speak on behalf of every racist on the planet? And not just every racist, but also every possible racist?

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I certainly haven't done anything of the kind - happily or otherwise. The only possible way you could interpret this is if you fallaciously equate "arabia for arabs" as "kill all non-arabs". Which it very clearly isn't.


What if the argument was that the earth is for whites and non-whites should be shipped off to Mars? Or antarctica? Somewhere where they won't get in the way us whities enjoying themsevles.

Why does racism necessarily involve killing but not geographic ownership? What is the fundamental difference there?

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Well done FD - that certainly is my argument, and I stand by it 100%. What was your point again?


Why introduce the requisite for superiority when it would still not be racist anyway, even if Aussie was implying superiority?

I assumed you had dropped that argument because you were conceding it was wrong. Why is it that Muslim can be a race but not Arab?

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Why are you asking this? What possible point could you be trying to make?  I seriously doubt there was any "intent" in moses' statement - other than the intent to be as offensive as possible.


Because you are arguing that religion is a 'marker' for race - not that you actually believe it is a marker, but that racists (Moses) believes it is, and he was actually referring to a racial group when he said Muslims. On the other hand, if he actually meant what he said - all Muslims, including the white ones - then it is not racist. Your argument relies one rejecting what Moses actually said and replacing it with your own racist version, just as you do with my whites example. But you also reject your own racist version, hence your refusal to answer the question. this should have been obvious from the quote I was responding to.
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Reply #350 - Jan 10th, 2017 at 6:13pm
 
polite_gandalf wrote on Jan 10th, 2017 at 6:44am:
Frank wrote on Jan 9th, 2017 at 7:51pm:
polite_gandalf wrote on Jan 9th, 2017 at 2:27pm:
Frank wrote on Jan 8th, 2017 at 9:26am:
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.



False dichotomy. Having a non-western 'cultural identity' shouldn't necessarily be interpreted as a big "F you" to western culture. This is what closed-minded people like you assume - because you are always assuming the worst of these people. The fact is, the overwhelming majority of cultural minorities in a western multicultural society have more than proven themselves to be compatible and productive in western society. No doubt you, and I suspect Yadda will blunder back in with your obligatory anecdotes of a few ratbags who buck the trend, but it doesn't change the fact that you are wrong- demonstrably so.



Fudging, pal, you are fudging.  They do demonstrate their cultural separateness as much as they can. The niqab, the ostentatious beard above the pajamas, the endless demand for prayer rooms, prayer breaks, early marks on Friday, special consideration during Ramadan, sensitivity to this that and the other are all demands because thy are unwilling to fit in with Western customs and culture.


They are exploiting a tolerance that is not extended by Muslims to non-Muslims when THEY are in their own Muslim cultural surroundings in Muslim countries. I could not flaunt my disregard for Muslim culture and customs if I went to a Muslim country where they do expect you to dress like a Muslim. I couldn't eat my BLT sandwiches openly at Ramadan, I could't refuse to exchange niceties at Eid and so forth. If the police stopped me I could't make a fuss about being discriminated against because my wife an daughters are not covered. And if I said they shouldn't take the Koran's word (5:51) about disdaining me to heart, I would be up on blasphemy charges like the mayor of Jakarta.


It's all one way cultural sensibility with 'demonstratively pious' Muslims. They always demand what they do not extend to others.  Muslims keep their heads down as long as they have to. There is no celebration of 'cultural diversity and tolerance' in Muslim countries. There is sectarian violence and oppression of the wrong kind of Muslim and of the non-Muslims. Because that's what Islam demands.

Just imagine for a minute what the world would be like if Muslim countries were as tolerant and accommodating as Europe, North America, Australia and NZ.  Just imagine. 


Sorry old boy - but you are so full of crap.

You haven't even attempted to counter the fact that cultural minorities in the west are overwhelmingly accepted by society, and the overwhelmingly integrate and contribute positively. You just revert to type, ranting on about your baseless stereotypes. Its almost like you are trying to come across as a bigot.



21 September 2016

New polling out today found that 49 per cent of people support a ban on Muslims coming to Australia, compared to 40 per cent who oppose a ban. (The remaining 11 per cent weren't sure either way.)


If you asked a similar question about Anglicans, agnostics, the French, Italians, atheists, Germans, Dutch, Catholics - they would look at you blankly, wondering why would ask such a question.
Ask them about Muslims - half of them don't want ANY of them. The 40 who oppose the ban do not mean let them in without checks an thorough vetting.

You guys have thrashed your reputations and keep thrashing it - but you blame everyone else.

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Reply #351 - Jan 10th, 2017 at 6:43pm
 
freediver wrote on Jan 10th, 2017 at 5:24pm:
All I saw in the quote you were responding to is Muslim. This is true regardless of Frank's other beliefs. Are you saying that you are ignoring what Frank says about Muslims, despite quoting him, and responding instead to what you think his broader views are?


What difference does it make? Frank is wrong about muslims not being overwhelmingly accepted into western society. OK? Do you agree? Or would you like to offer some actual arguments to defend his baseless contention?

freediver wrote on Jan 10th, 2017 at 5:24pm:
Why not? Why can an extended familial type of self-interest not be the sole reason? After all, race is simply a broader version of family and tribe identity. Are you saying you speak on behalf of every racist on the planet? And not just every racist, but also every possible racist?


There literally is no sensible explanation for advocating mass genocide of an entire race that excludes racial superiority as the justification. Whatever you spin it as, self interest, fear, whatever, it can only be that: you simply don't advocate the annihilation of an entire ethnic group/race if you think they are your equals who deserve the same rights as you. Would you care to have a go at apologising for the holocaust? Were the nazis simply thinking about "an extended familial type of self-interest"? Well maybe they were, but they were above anything else racial supremacists - as are all racists who advocate mass genocide, which thankfully is a very small percentage of racists.

freediver wrote on Jan 10th, 2017 at 5:24pm:
Why does racism necessarily involve killing but not geographic ownership?


Now who's saying that FD? Certainly not me. In fact I have repeatedly stated that 'arabia for arabs' could potentially be racist - depending on the context it is used.

freediver wrote on Jan 10th, 2017 at 5:24pm:
Why introduce the requisite for superiority when it would still not be racist anyway, even if Aussie was implying superiority?


Who said? Again not me. If Aussie was implying superiority of arabs over another group it absolutely would be racist. No ifs or buts. But thats not how he framed it - he even came and specifically said thats not what he meant. His only point - which I concede was badly prosecuted - was that western meddling in arab affairs has been nothing but trouble - and that it should stop. In fact come to think of it, he was if anything making a critique against racism - the racism of the western colonialists when they trampled all over arab sovereignty.

freediver wrote on Jan 10th, 2017 at 5:24pm:
On the other hand, if he actually meant what he said - all Muslims, including the white ones - then it is not racist.


umm no FD. When moses talks about inbred psychopathic retards who squat to pee - do you think he had non-inbred whites in mind? Take your time on this one.

The fact that he doesn't take into account, or dismisses, the diversity (ie those who are not inbred/retarded) within a group that he is broad-stroking is a big part of why its racist.
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Reply #352 - Jan 10th, 2017 at 6:51pm
 
Frank wrote on Jan 10th, 2017 at 6:13pm:
polite_gandalf wrote on Jan 10th, 2017 at 6:44am:
Frank wrote on Jan 9th, 2017 at 7:51pm:
polite_gandalf wrote on Jan 9th, 2017 at 2:27pm:
Frank wrote on Jan 8th, 2017 at 9:26am:
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.



False dichotomy. Having a non-western 'cultural identity' shouldn't necessarily be interpreted as a big "F you" to western culture. This is what closed-minded people like you assume - because you are always assuming the worst of these people. The fact is, the overwhelming majority of cultural minorities in a western multicultural society have more than proven themselves to be compatible and productive in western society. No doubt you, and I suspect Yadda will blunder back in with your obligatory anecdotes of a few ratbags who buck the trend, but it doesn't change the fact that you are wrong- demonstrably so.



Fudging, pal, you are fudging.  They do demonstrate their cultural separateness as much as they can. The niqab, the ostentatious beard above the pajamas, the endless demand for prayer rooms, prayer breaks, early marks on Friday, special consideration during Ramadan, sensitivity to this that and the other are all demands because thy are unwilling to fit in with Western customs and culture.


They are exploiting a tolerance that is not extended by Muslims to non-Muslims when THEY are in their own Muslim cultural surroundings in Muslim countries. I could not flaunt my disregard for Muslim culture and customs if I went to a Muslim country where they do expect you to dress like a Muslim. I couldn't eat my BLT sandwiches openly at Ramadan, I could't refuse to exchange niceties at Eid and so forth. If the police stopped me I could't make a fuss about being discriminated against because my wife an daughters are not covered. And if I said they shouldn't take the Koran's word (5:51) about disdaining me to heart, I would be up on blasphemy charges like the mayor of Jakarta.


It's all one way cultural sensibility with 'demonstratively pious' Muslims. They always demand what they do not extend to others.  Muslims keep their heads down as long as they have to. There is no celebration of 'cultural diversity and tolerance' in Muslim countries. There is sectarian violence and oppression of the wrong kind of Muslim and of the non-Muslims. Because that's what Islam demands.

Just imagine for a minute what the world would be like if Muslim countries were as tolerant and accommodating as Europe, North America, Australia and NZ.  Just imagine. 


Sorry old boy - but you are so full of crap.

You haven't even attempted to counter the fact that cultural minorities in the west are overwhelmingly accepted by society, and the overwhelmingly integrate and contribute positively. You just revert to type, ranting on about your baseless stereotypes. Its almost like you are trying to come across as a bigot.



21 September 2016

New polling out today found that 49 per cent of people support a ban on Muslims coming to Australia, compared to 40 per cent who oppose a ban. (The remaining 11 per cent weren't sure either way.)


If you asked a similar question about Anglicans, agnostics, the French, Italians, atheists, Germans, Dutch, Catholics - they would look at you blankly, wondering why would ask such a question.
Ask them about Muslims - half of them don't want ANY of them. The 40 who oppose the ban do not mean let them in without checks an thorough vetting.

You guys have thrashed your reputations and keep thrashing it - but you blame everyone else.



A new poll shows Australians don't oppose Muslim migration as much as previously thought, with a clear majority supporting Muslims and refugees immigrating Down Under.

In September, an Essential poll was released showing that 49 percent of respondents supported a ban on Muslim immigration. At the time, we told you why that would be a very bad idea.

Essential found just 40 percent of people opposed a ban on Muslim immigration. Of the supporters, 40 percent claimed Muslims "do not integrate into Australian society", 27 percent cited "terrorist threat", and 22 percent said: "They do not share our values".

"The result floored me," said Peter Lewis, Essential's executive director, in a piece in The Guardian. He said the company ran the numbers twice, so unexpected was the result.

However, a new poll by Roy Morgan returned a vastly different result. Data released on Tuesday showed that 58 percent of Australians support Muslim migration, compared to 33 percent opposing. In addition, 66 percent supported refugee immigration and just 25 percent opposed, 74 percent supported family reunion immigration, and 77 percent supported skilled migrant immigration. The poll notes that support for Muslim immigration is down seven percent from the 65 percent support it had in October 2015

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Reply #353 - Jan 10th, 2017 at 6:54pm
 
Frank wrote on Jan 10th, 2017 at 6:13pm:
If you asked a similar question about Anglicans, agnostics, the French, Italians, atheists, Germans, Dutch, Catholics - they would look at you blankly, wondering why would ask such a question.


Today?  Yes, they would.  25 years ago?  50 years ago?  100 years ago?  They would have been just as convulsed with sectarian and racial hatred, Frank, as they are today towards Muslims.   Catholics were hated until the early 1960s in Australia in a similar way to how Muslims are misrepresented today.   "Ethnics" as they became known, were viewed with deep suspicion by the mass of the Australian population until the late 1960s.   All that changed, people met the "other" and found they were exactly like themselves.  Muslims are as well, despite the bullshit that you and your fellow Islamophobes like to post in places like this, Frank.   In thirty years time, Muslims will be just as much part of Australia's Multicultural society as are the Indo-Chinese and the Catholics.    Your hatred will be for nought.  Muslims are here to stay, Frank and you're going to have to become use to them.    Roll Eyes Roll Eyes

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Reply #354 - Jan 10th, 2017 at 7:06pm
 
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What difference does it make? Frank is wrong about muslims not being overwhelmingly accepted into western society. OK? Do you agree? Or would you like to offer some actual arguments to defend his baseless contention?


New polling out today found that 49 per cent of people support a ban on Muslims coming to Australia, compared to 40 per cent who oppose a ban. (The remaining 11 per cent weren't sure either way.)

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There literally is no sensible explanation for advocating mass genocide of an entire race that excludes racial superiority as the justification.


Ah, so racists only say things that have a sensible explanation now?

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Whatever you spin it as, self interest, fear, whatever, it can only be that: you simply don't advocate the annihilation of an entire ethnic group/race if you think they are your equals who deserve the same rights as you.


Aussie thinks the European Jewish immigrants to Israel do not have the same rights as Arabs, yet he aslo insists that he does not view the Arabs as superior. Do you believe him?

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Would you care to have a go at apologising for the holocaust? Were the nazis simply thinking about "an extended familial type of self-interest"? Well maybe they were, but they were above anything else racial supremacists - as are all racists who advocate mass genocide, which thankfully is a very small percentage of racists.


Every single one of them? Now you are being racist Gandalf. I'm sure plenty merely saw self interest in Lebensraum.

Also, aborigines get better treatment under Australian law. Could that only be motivated by notions of aboriginal superiority?

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Now who's saying that FD? Certainly not me.


Yes you are, here:

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I certainly haven't done anything of the kind - happily or otherwise. The only possible way you could interpret this is if you fallaciously equate "arabia for arabs" as "kill all non-arabs". Which it very clearly isn't.


What is the distinction youa re trying to invoke here Gandalf?

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If Aussie was implying superiority of arabs over another group it absolutely would be racist. No ifs or buts.


Even though Arabs are not a race? Why did you go on about them being a linguistic group for so long if superiority was the deciding factor? Do you still insist that Aussie was only referring to language?

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But thats not how he framed it - he even came and specifically said thats not what he meant. His only point - which I concede was badly prosecuted - was that western meddling in arab affairs has been nothing but trouble - and that it should stop.


Wrong Gandalf. Here he is, in this very thread. You even responded to this post:

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term.  It has zero to do with a group superiority over another.  I include Jewish 'Arabs' when I use the term Arabia is for ArabsI specifically exclude Jews from Europe, the USA and elsewhere.  They ought bugger orf, and leave that Land to the Arabs.


Would you like to concede this one also? You were wrong to insist that it is limited to the west "stopping" it's meddling. This is also a good example of someone saying something that is clearly racist while excluding superiority as a motive. Now would be a good time to concede you were wrong on that also. Let me know when you have finished backpedaling. It can be hard to tell with you.

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umm no FD. When moses talks about inbred psychopathic retards who squat to pee - do you think he had non-inbred whites in mind? Take your time on this one.


If he said they were inbred, he probably intended to exclude the non-inbred ones. But that is not what he actually said, is it? Care to answer the question now? Did Moses intend to include you when he referred to 100% of Muslim men? If so, does that not then fail your definition of racism, because you don't believe Muslims are a race and Moses was specifically not using it as a "marker" for a racial group.
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Reply #355 - Jan 10th, 2017 at 8:06pm
 
Let's sort this out once and for all, FD. Just answer this:

Are you racist? If not, why not?

Gordon says he nearly married a tint. Andrei says some of his best friends are wogs, Boongs, Chows, etc.

No chickening out this time, FD. How about you?
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Reply #356 - Jan 11th, 2017 at 11:16am
 
freediver wrote on Jan 10th, 2017 at 7:06pm:
Yes you are, here:


No, you are confused. Please quote me saying racism can't involve geographic ownership. And this time, don't quote me pointing out that geographic ownership is not the same as genocide.

freediver wrote on Jan 10th, 2017 at 7:06pm:
Why did you go on about them being a linguistic group for so long if superiority was the deciding factor?


superiority is the deciding factor. I have already explained what my point about arabs not being a 'race' was. Please pay attention for once.

freediver wrote on Jan 10th, 2017 at 7:06pm:
Would you like to concede this one also? You were wrong to insist that it is limited to the west "stopping" it's meddling. This is also a good example of someone saying something that is clearly racist while excluding superiority as a motive. Now would be a good time to concede you were wrong on that also. Let me know when you have finished backpedaling. It can be hard to tell with you.


Sounds like classic FD verballing to me. Lets stick to what Aussie actually said shall we? Like when he specifically described the entrance of European jews and western meddling as one in the same. Did that particular quote slip your mind when you asserted that I was "wrong to insist that it is limited to the west stopping its meddling"?

Did you also miss the bit in that very quote that said " It has zero to do with a group superiority over another"? Nothing he says subsequent or prior to this contradicts this assertion as far as I can tell.
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No, you are confused. Please quote me saying racism can't involve geographic ownership. And this time, don't quote me pointing out that geographic ownership is not the same as genocide.


You are saying racism requires superiority. Hence, geographic ownership is not sufficient, according to you. This makes it irrelevant to whether it is racist.

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Sounds like classic FD verballing to me. Lets stick to what Aussie actually said shall we? Like when he specifically described the entrance of European jews and western meddling as one in the same. Did that particular quote slip your mind when you asserted that I was "wrong to insist that it is limited to the west stopping its meddling"?


When Muslims say they want the west to stop meddling in the middle east, does this include the expulsion of jewish immigrants from Europe?

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Did you also miss the bit in that very quote that said " It has zero to do with a group superiority over another"?


No Gandalf. That is why I said it excludes superiority.

Here again is what Aussie actually said:

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Arabia is for Arabs is my term.  It has zero to do with a group superiority over another.  I include Jewish 'Arabs' when I use the term Arabia is for Arabs.  I specifically exclude Jews from Europe, the USA and elsewhere.  They ought bugger orf, and leave that Land to the Arabs.


Would you argue that this is not racist because it excludes superiority? If you can accept that Aussie's argument is not based on superiority, why must you insist on the impossibility of the hypothetical I proposed?
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Reply #358 - Jan 11th, 2017 at 12:32pm
 
Gandalf have you abandoned your argument that it is racist to say people who are born stupid are more likely to adopt Islam, but it is not racist to say that people who are willfully stupid are more likely to adopt Islam?

Would you insist that not a single Nazi or Nazi sympathiser supported the Lebensraum argument out of a sense of self interest without actually considering themselves superior?

Aborigines get better treatment under Australian law. Could that only be motivated by notions of aboriginal superiority?

Did Moses intend to include you when he referred to 100% of Muslim men? If so, does that not then fail your definition of racism, because you don't believe Muslims are a race and Moses was specifically not using it as a "marker" for a racial group.
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Reply #359 - Jan 11th, 2017 at 12:38pm
 
So just to be clear FD - a statement that clearly stipulates that there is a problem with invasion and foreign meddling - and that those invaders and meddlers should "bugger off" and leave the natives alone - is racist? Or is it only racist when its referring to jews?

Has it yet dawned on you how such a political statement critiquing colonialism (albeit crudely expressed) is about 1000 times different to actual racism that clearly emphasises the inherent inferiority of the target 'race' - say like, oh I don't know, asserting that 100% of them are inbred/intellectually retarded?
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Outlawing the enemy's uniform - hijab, islamic beard - is not depriving one's own people of their freedoms.
 
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