freediver wrote on Jan 19
th, 2017 at 7:26pm:
Sand negro is a race, but his reference to 100% of Muslims obviously excludes the possibility he was referring to racial subgroup of Muslims.
You are talking complete nonsense. Sand negro is not a 'race' - its a made up word. It can be, and has been, referred to any 'muslim looking' person from Afghanistan to Iraq to the Berbers of North Africa. All completely different "races" in your book.
Presumably you can't therefore claim the statement '100% of muslims are sand negroes' is racist. Correct? We simply need to apply your own logic - and conclude that "reference to 100% of Muslims obviously excludes the possibility he was referring to racial subgroup of Muslims"
And yet previously you asserted exactly that - that 'all muslims are sand negroes' is racist. Can you explain this gaping contradiction in your own argument?
Quote:Because people choose to be Muslims. They don't choose to be black. If you adopt a regressive creed like Islam, people are going to say disparaging things about you, just like if you decide to be a communist or Greens supporter or a Nazi. Sometimes they might even gets the facts wrong. Shock, horror. You suck that up.
So just to clarify here FD - if a normal law-abiding, peace-loving muslim, who integrates into western society and has never killed anyone is referred to as a low intellect due to inbreeding who goes around killing people - thats somehow not as bad as calling the same person a "sand negro"? Just because being born a "sand negro" (which remember, is a made up word) is not a choice - even though being born with low intellect due to inbreeding is also not a choice?
Is it sinking in yet that my beef with moses' statement does not have anything to do with the choice of being a muslim, but rather his broad-stroking regarding what is inherent in being born muslim? And that just like 'sand negro' is a derogatory claim about what a person is 'born as'- so to is inbred-related low intellect?
Quote:Were you lying about whether you consider it racism to get me to comment on this?
Think about how stupid this question is FD. I assert its racism, you disagree, so I follow up with "ok, then what would you describe it as (besides "not racist")" - and that can somehow be twisted into "hmmm - gandalf must be lying about something just to get me to comment on this" Only you could turn such blatant evasion on your part as somehow me lying, or your previous gem - 'negotiating down' or 'backpeddling' on moses' racism.
Quote:These are your mental contortions Gandalf. You seem to think it is plausible that someone might say pretty much the same thing,
Ah that would be your hilarious BS that "non whites" is "pretty much the same" as "anyone who migrated post 1850" - right? Comedy gold. How many lilly white eastern Europeans, French, Germans - not to mention Irish and Scots have took up residence in England since 1850?
Quote:but define it a bit more rigorously, without the need for racial superiority as a motive.
Sure, if there is no need for 'racial superiority' as a motive, there is no need to use "non-whites" and "kick out" in the same sentence. It would also be infinitely more logical, as it wouldn't (racistly) ascribe the "problem" of residents without proper claim to heritage exclusively at the feet of non-whites - even though there would be
at least as many whites that fit into the same category.
Quote:Do you really think the people who say these things are going to care about the subtle difference between white and those with British heritage?
Oh FD, subtlety is the last attribute I would ascribe to a racist.
Such 'non-subtleties' as thinking that "non-white" and "everyone who entered England after 1850" is "pretty much the same". Thats exactly what a racist would say - because its an outrageous broad-stroke of a very large and diverse group. Just sayin....
OF course racists don't care about the subtle differences - no doubt racists would say both, even though in both cases they are thinking only of "non-whites" or "non-[whatever race they identify as]" - and making both specifically as a statement of racial superiority. But thats not to say the statement "anyone who entered after 1850 should be kicked out" can't be said by a non-racist. It can. Its probably less likely, but it its possible . Unlike the exclusively racist statement "all non-whites should be kicked out".
Quote:If someone suggested that all people of African ancestry from the last few centuries should be kicked out of England for the same reason (because that is their history, not because they are inferior), would you also insist that is not racist?
That is a much better comparison to my "anyone who entered after 1850" example. And yes, it absolutely could be non-racist. And I hope you can understand the difference between this sort of statement and the hopeless broad-stroke statement "all non-whites".