Re: Turkish Bombings

On Thursday 20 November 2003 03:14, Andreas Pour wrote:
> >
> > Actually, in this instance,  I prefer to beg the question. If you call
> > yourself a Jew  you are. And if others call you a Jew, then you are
> > too--whether you like it or not. It's an imperfect definition for an
> > imperfect world. It may not hold up in court, but it  works for day to
> > day life and adequately encompasses the anti-Jewish beliefs and behavior
> > of racists. Afterall, people like Hitler or your imaginary Osama bin
> > Laden don't care whether I think of myself as Jew. If they've identified
> > me as such, then I'm toast.
>
> OK, so you evaded the issues.
>
> > And I believe that getting all worked up about the innacurracy of the
> > term anti-semite is a dodge to avoid having to admit that you're
> > anti-Jewish.
>
> Avoiding the issues and returning to slander, now that's even more typical.
> This is the great problem with people who consider themselves "serious
> leftists and liberals" - you are neither serious nor liberal, you just like
> to slander people that disagree with you.
>
Strangely is you who are avoiding the issue and turning to slander. 
The term jew is inaccurate, but the inaccuracy doesnt matter when discussing 
anti-semitism/anti-jewish, since the historic antisemitic people did not care 
for accuracy. I say historic, since I do not believe antisemitism/anti-jewish 
exist any more. It is, as you point out yourself, just being used to silence 
critics of Isreal.

`Allan

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