why throwing around words like "anti-semitism" is fascism

prozak at anus.com prozak at anus.com
Wed Feb 26 13:57:14 CST 2003


> <<No religion, group, or idea should be protected from
> criticism with a blanket return insult.>>
> 
> Again, dimwit, citing an anti-Semitic comment as
> anti-Semitic may insult the moron who made the
> comment, but that doesn't free said moron or the
> comment from the truth of the charge.
> 
> Making unsubstantiated claims about Jewish
> infiltration in government is not a criticism of
> religion; it is a smear, and a very hamfisted one. 

Any group that self-identifies as a group will have no quarrel with 
being identified by others as such, right? Or is this a double 
standard?

I see Pynchon's hypothesis at work here. Iraq is Israel's major 
enemy. The US government has many people of fanatical, binary 
religious beliefs (*) who are screaming for war. And are we asking 
the right questions, or the wrong ones?

* - I postpone the debate of whether or not Christianity and Judaism 
are inherently binary. The people in power practice these arts a 
certain way. Some who are critical of dualism will note the inherent 
binary tendencies of "good"/"evil" as used in the west; this wasn't 
the case with the Greeks, for example.

To Keith, P Chevalier and MalignD:

If your personal taste conflicts with the issues at hand, you can 
always unsubscribe. The petty personal attacks, illogical arguing and 
ad hominem, etc. aren't fit for adults.

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