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Question: Is the statement is my signature racist?

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Reply #390 - Jan 11th, 2017 at 9:30pm
 
polite_gandalf wrote on Dec 16th, 2016 at 11:40am:
I reluctantly start a new thread in a desperate bid to get an actual answer from FD.

As you all know, FD's favourite retort to the claim that Islamophobia is racism - is to quip that Islam is not a race. FD's position, therefore, is that racism can only be racism if it refers to actual genetic "races". FD, feel free to stop me here if I've misrepresented you in any way - since I haven't inserted any quotes yet. But I'm hoping common sense kicks in here and you won't dispute that.

It is therefore strange when FD refers to the phrase "arabia for arabs" as a case of "blatant racism". For example:

freediver wrote on Dec 14th, 2016 at 8:09pm:
but when Aussie makes a clear reference to racial groupings as well as his desire for genocide, you suddenly can't see it?


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 - but certainly didn't deny that it is indeed true that arabs are not a race (and therefore rendering his whole premise about racism flawed):

freediver wrote on Dec 15th, 2016 at 1:38pm:
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arabs are not a race


And inbred people are? Where are you trying to go with this Gandalf? An expose on the mental contortions of a Muslim reformer?



So FD, if you wouldn't mind just clarifying for us all, how the phrase 'arabia for arabs' is blatant racism - given that you don't dispute the fact that arabs are not a race. Thanks.



Recognising racial, lingusistic, cultural differences is a normal and good thing. We all do it. No use denying the obvious.

Arabs are a race, a linguistic group and a culture, with some variation. The point - they are NOT Scandinavians, Brits, Chinese, Russians, etc.

Do Muslim Arabs have a habit of marrying their cousins for tribal reasons? Yes.
Do Australians, Europeans, Canadians marry their cousins for tribal reasons? No - unless they are Muslim Arabs.

Muslim Arabs have a negative cultural influence on every Western country they migrate to. That's the long and the short of all this argy-bargy, Gandalf - how does an evidently superior culture, the West, resist an evidently inferior culture, Islam, without appearing impolite.
It's an impossibility, Gandalf, I am telling you.

Islam is an inferior culture in every aspect- but we pretend it isn't because most Muslims are also afflicted with a 'racial' identity which they mine and exploit to the fullest extent. You are  case in point precisely because you are white. You are sensitive to Muslim race because you a white Muslim.

But Islam would be as inferior if it was entirely and exclusively an Icelandic creed. Islam is a bad creed not because most of its adherents are non-white, but because it IS a bad creed. You just divert from the badness of the creed by endless reference to 'race'.


A ginger Muslim is as stupid and misguided as a dark one.  It's the creed, stupid, not the race.








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Reply #391 - Jan 11th, 2017 at 9:34pm
 
Aussie wrote on Jan 11th, 2017 at 9:15pm:
Clever buggers weren't they.  Drew a map more than 2000 years ago.  Even gave bits names you recognise.

Yev convinced me, Soren.



Well, no Aborigine has any claim to anything, then - 40,000 years and they didn't even draw a map.


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Reply #392 - Jan 11th, 2017 at 10:02pm
 
Gordon wrote on Jan 11th, 2017 at 8:50pm:
Karnal wrote on Jan 11th, 2017 at 8:48pm:
freediver wrote on Jan 11th, 2017 at 8:21pm:
So not recognising Israel is your idea for stability and peace?

Would you recognise Israel if they got rid of the European Jews?


FD? Are you there?


I thought you'd run away


I know. You're quite scary, Gordon.

FD?
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Reply #393 - Jan 11th, 2017 at 10:02pm
 
Frank wrote on Jan 11th, 2017 at 9:34pm:
Aussie wrote on Jan 11th, 2017 at 9:15pm:
Clever buggers weren't they.  Drew a map more than 2000 years ago.  Even gave bits names you recognise.

Yev convinced me, Soren.



Well, no Aborigine has any claim to anything, then - 40,000 years and they didn't even draw a map.




FD said they invented a stick.
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Reply #394 - Jan 11th, 2017 at 10:11pm
 
Karnal wrote on Jan 11th, 2017 at 10:02pm:
Gordon wrote on Jan 11th, 2017 at 8:50pm:
Karnal wrote on Jan 11th, 2017 at 8:48pm:
freediver wrote on Jan 11th, 2017 at 8:21pm:
So not recognising Israel is your idea for stability and peace?

Would you recognise Israel if they got rid of the European Jews?


FD? Are you there?


I thought you'd run away


I know. You're quite scary, Gordon.

FD?


Is it the swastika tat on my neck?
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Reply #395 - Jan 11th, 2017 at 10:13pm
 
Karnal wrote on Jan 11th, 2017 at 10:02pm:
Frank wrote on Jan 11th, 2017 at 9:34pm:
Aussie wrote on Jan 11th, 2017 at 9:15pm:
Clever buggers weren't they.  Drew a map more than 2000 years ago.  Even gave bits names you recognise.

Yev convinced me, Soren.



Well, no Aborigine has any claim to anything, then - 40,000 years and they didn't even draw a map.




FD said they invented a stick.


They're yet to contribute to modernity.
I think thats the best that can be said.
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Reply #396 - Jan 11th, 2017 at 10:18pm
 
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If the artificially created 'State of Israel' moved to Tasmania, I too would be a happy little vegemite.

What have you got against Tasmania?  It is far better than that crappy sliver of land the new 'Jacob Come Lately' Israelis find too small that they have to invade neighbours ~ because they can with Western donated money and hardware.

Nah.  Arabia is for Arabs.  Newbie, coat-tail, 'Jacob' (black, white, brindle, red, orange and green etc) can ferk off.


But only if they want to?

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A ginger Muslim is as stupid and misguided as a dark one.  It's the creed, stupid, not the race.


Here's another one Gandalf. Like Moses, he thinks all Muslims are idiots. Is that racist? Do we need to ask him whether they were born idiots before we can decide? Or does he really mean African when he says ginger?
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Reply #397 - Jan 11th, 2017 at 11:12pm
 
freediver wrote on Jan 11th, 2017 at 10:18pm:
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If the artificially created 'State of Israel' moved to Tasmania, I too would be a happy little vegemite.

What have you got against Tasmania?  It is far better than that crappy sliver of land the new 'Jacob Come Lately' Israelis find too small that they have to invade neighbours ~ because they can with Western donated money and hardware.

Nah.  Arabia is for Arabs.  Newbie, coat-tail, 'Jacob' (black, white, brindle, red, orange and green etc) can ferk off.


But only if they want to?

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A ginger Muslim is as stupid and misguided as a dark one.  It's the creed, stupid, not the race.


Here's another one Gandalf. Like Moses, he thinks all Muslims are idiots. Is that racist? Do we need to ask him whether they were born idiots before we can decide? Or does he really mean African when he says ginger?


How about stupid Boongs, FD?

Is that racist?
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Reply #398 - Jan 12th, 2017 at 12:55pm
 
freediver wrote on Jan 11th, 2017 at 7:13pm:
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?

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


Best stick to what I actually say FD (that line never gets old does it). Also, you'll have to explain the Aborigine analogy. Makes no sense to me.

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The "west" did not invade. Nor did the jews even. For the most part they simply immigrated. Aussie is suggesting they be forced back, based on whether they are Arabs. Do you think that is racist?


Thats your narrative FD, not Aussies. You can't simply accuse someone of being racist based on your interpretation of the background history. The best you can say is that Aussie is ignorant of history or even deluded - but he is not being racist.

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Perhaps a more familiar example would be more likely to get a straight answer. If someone suggested all non-whites should be kicked out of England, not out of a sense of superiority, but merely 'white ownership' of the Island and discontent with past policy, would that be racist?


No its a silly example that makes no sense. No one in England is suffering because of 'white ownership'. It is not a third-world backwater that has suffered decades of colonialism from foreign hegemons, nor is it a cesspool of political instability as a direct result of this colonialism - that continues to this day.


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Would you insist the Lebensraum argument is not racist when it is made solely for the purpose of benefitting Aryans and without a justification of superiority?


Lebensraum arguments may conceivably be non-racist. It would be a massive stretch, but I suppose its possible. However to suggest that arguments for mass genocide along racial grounds could conceivably exclude racial superiority as the justification is the height of absurdity. Just to clarify, are you still contending that advocating mass genocide along racial grounds could possibly exclude superiority as a justification?


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And you are incorrect. I am saying it is not racist because inbred is not a race, not because he doesn't really mean inbred. Retarded is not a race. Muslim is not a race. Is this sounding familiar yet Gandalf? Let me know when it sinks in.

It is not racist because you agree that Muslim is not a race, and if Moses intended to include you then it is not a "marker" for a race either, which is the only basis you gave earlier for including religious groups in racism.


I simply don't get this line of inquiry over what moses "intended". Whatever he intended, his statement is the height of stupidity - and racist: if he was thinking of me when he said all muslims are intellectually disabled, then he is casting baseless assertions about my IQ and/or my personal heritage (which in any case is not even Islamic) - and simply dismissing me as part of the mindless collective, that is the Islamic world to him. If he wasn't thinking of me, then it just proves he is describing muslims according to his (demonstrably untrue) stereotype - which, dare I say it, is a 'racialised' caricature.

In short, his 'intentions' regarding his racist statement could not possibly get him a 'get out of gaol free' card in terms of not being racist. If anything, his intentions just confirm the racist nature of his comment one way or another.


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So why go to such absurd lengths to create your fantasy of a purebred race of recessive retards


Again, moses' fantasy world where the entire muslim population is intellectually disabled through inbreeding - is only possible by having a 'purebred race of recessive retards'. Go read your Mendelian genetics
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Reply #399 - Jan 12th, 2017 at 1:31pm
 
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Aussie is suggesting they be forced back, based on whether they are Arabs.


I am suggesting no such thing.  Everyone is free to remain in what once was the artificially created State of Israel after the real one departs and moves to Tasmania and receives on-going support from the West.  Those who remain are free to do what they like, including tap dance with the neighbouring Muslems without the West playing the music.
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Reply #400 - Jan 12th, 2017 at 6:49pm
 
Best stick to what I actually say FD (that line never gets old does it).

You did actually say that. Do I need to quote you again? 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? Can I take your dodging as a Muslim version of yes?

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Also, you'll have to explain the Aborigine analogy. Makes no sense to me.


It is discrimination on the basis of race. Aborigines get better treatment under Australian law. Could that only be motivated by notions of aboriginal superiority?

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Thats your narrative FD, not Aussies. You can't simply accuse someone of being racist based on your interpretation of the background history.


The background history is irrelevant to whether what he says is racist.

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The best you can say is that Aussie is ignorant of history or even deluded - but he is not being racist.


No, but saying the European but not Arab Jews should ferk orf is racist.

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No its a silly example that makes no sense.


I am not asking whether it makes sense. I am asking whether it is racist. Stop being such a Muslim and try giving a straight answer. If someone suggested all non-whites should be kicked out of England, not out of a sense of superiority, but merely 'white ownership' of the Island and discontent with past policy, would that be racist?

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No one in England is suffering because of 'white ownership'. It is not a third-world backwater that has suffered decades of colonialism from foreign hegemons, nor is it a cesspool of political instability as a direct result of this colonialism - that continues to this day.


How is this relevant to whether it is racist? Are you adding cesspool to your definition of racism, as well as correct interpretation of history (ie, blaming the west)?

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Lebensraum arguments may conceivably be non-racist.


Can you give an example of one you would consider non-racist?

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Just to clarify, are you still contending that advocating mass genocide along racial grounds could possibly exclude superiority as a justification?


Sure. I gave an example earlier. Not everyone feels the need to dress collective self interest up as something else.

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I simply don't get this line of inquiry over what moses "intended".


Let me explain. It is not racist because you agree that Muslim is not a race, and if Moses intended to include you then it is not a "marker" for a race either, which is the only basis you gave earlier for including religious groups in racism.

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Whatever he intended, his statement is the height of stupidity - and racist: if he was thinking of me when he said all muslims are intellectually disabled, then he is casting baseless assertions about my IQ and/or my personal heritage (which in any case is not even Islamic) - and simply dismissing me as part of the mindless collective, that is the Islamic world to him. If he wasn't thinking of me, then it just proves he is describing muslims according to his (demonstrably untrue) stereotype - which, dare I say it, is a 'racialised' caricature.


The "racialised caricature" is what you argued before when you insisted a religion is not actually a race and not a basis of racism, unless it is a "racial marker". If this is not the case - ie if Moses did in fact intend to include all Muslims regadless of race - how is it racist?

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In short, his 'intentions' regarding his racist statement could not possibly get him a 'get out of gaol free' card in terms of not being racist.


Is this not what you argued when you insisted what he said is racist because he used Muslim as a "racial marker'?

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If anything, his intentions just confirm the racist nature of his comment one way or another.


In other words, you insist on defining criticism of Islam as racism regardless of the racial content of the criticism. One by one you discard every distinction you have made about what is racist and what is not racist - born vs willfully stupid, racial marker etc - because your only goal is to racialise criticism of Islam and prop up the Islamic victimhood industry.

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Again, moses' fantasy world where the entire muslim population is intellectually disabled through inbreeding


He did not say intellectually disabled. Your fantasy Gandalf.

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is only possible by having a 'purebred race of recessive retards'


No it is not. You suggested a far more plausible explanation.

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Go read your Mendelian genetics


You conceded you were wrong about the inbreeding genetics, but kept it very vague. What exactly were you wrong about?

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I am suggesting no such thing.  Everyone is free to remain in what once was the artificially created State of Israel after the real one departs and moves to Tasmania and receives on-going support from the West.  Those who remain are free to do what they like, including tap dance with the neighbouring Muslems without the West playing the music.


Does being free to do what they like include maintaining a state there called Israel that is dominated by jews including a large number of jews of recent European ancestry?
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Reply #401 - Jan 12th, 2017 at 7:07pm
 
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Does being free to do what they like include maintaining a state there called Israel that is dominated by jews including a large number of jews of recent European ancestry?


Sure.  Do it....without a gazillion dollars of financial and military support from the West and duke it out with the neighbours as they have in the Land of (even Jewish) Arabs for centuries.

Meanwhile, the State of Israel, and those citizens who are happy not to be a square peg (the artificially created State of Israel where it is) in a round hole can live happily ever after in Tasmania (not the Land of Arabs.)  Surely, they will not get all territorial and want to 'settle' SA, Vic, and WA?  Nah, they would have no need, would they.

It's a simple concept FD, one I'm sure you are capable of understanding.
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Reply #402 - Jan 12th, 2017 at 7:38pm
 
Aussie wrote on Jan 12th, 2017 at 7:07pm:
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Does being free to do what they like include maintaining a state there called Israel that is dominated by jews including a large number of jews of recent European ancestry?


Sure.  Do it....without a gazillion dollars of financial and military support from the West and duke it out with the neighbours as they have in the Land of (even Jewish) Arabs for centuries.

Meanwhile, the State of Israel, and those citizens who are happy not to be a square peg (the artificially created State of Israel where it is) in a round hole can live happily ever after in Tasmania (not the Land of Arabs.)  Surely, they will not get all territorial and want to 'settle' SA, Vic, and WA?  Nah, they would have no need, would they.

It's a simple concept FD, one I'm sure you are capable of understanding.


You think?
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Reply #403 - Jan 12th, 2017 at 7:46pm
 
Karnal wrote on Jan 12th, 2017 at 7:38pm:
Aussie wrote on Jan 12th, 2017 at 7:07pm:
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Does being free to do what they like include maintaining a state there called Israel that is dominated by jews including a large number of jews of recent European ancestry?


Sure.  Do it....without a gazillion dollars of financial and military support from the West and duke it out with the neighbours as they have in the Land of (even Jewish) Arabs for centuries.

Meanwhile, the State of Israel, and those citizens who are happy not to be a square peg (the artificially created State of Israel where it is) in a round hole can live happily ever after in Tasmania (not the Land of Arabs.)  Surely, they will not get all territorial and want to 'settle' SA, Vic, and WA?  Nah, they would have no need, would they.

It's a simple concept FD, one I'm sure you are capable of understanding.


You think?


Ah!  The seeds of doubt have been sown.
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Reply #404 - Jan 12th, 2017 at 10:11pm
 
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Sure.  Do it....without a gazillion dollars of financial and military support from the West and duke it out with the neighbours as they have in the Land of (even Jewish) Arabs for centuries.


Is this the only 'actual' change you are proposing?

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Meanwhile, the State of Israel, and those citizens who are happy not to be a square peg (the artificially created State of Israel where it is) in a round hole can live happily ever after in Tasmania (not the Land of Arabs.)


Just the European ones? Or all the Jews?
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