Re: Another Censorship . . . .

On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 09:34:58PM -0600, Andreas Pour wrote:
> > The group that you originally mentioned and JRT quotes from is urging
> > something much more racist (indeed, marrying in a culture is not racist,
> > although it could be "culturalist," I suppose).
> 
> That is an interesting obfuscation.  Now if that is true, then hating Jews is
> not racist either, but a cultural preference / dislike?

Yes, I can live with a phrase such as "cultural hatred".

Culturalism is a word I've thought about myself. And to be honest, I don't
think we'll end up in a multi-cultural world. Some of the cultures on earth
are simply incompatible and the limited size of earth and its resources kind
will make things worse for as long as the earth's population is still
growing. But that's another discussion.. and definitely not one I'll start
at 5:30am local time.

> What is wrong is to switch the interpretation.  Either discriminating
> based on culture / religion is OK, or it is not (though I would treat
> personal life - marriage, etc. - different from public life - restaurants,
> etc.).

Extra option: it's possible to hate without discriminating. I hate Perl, but
that doesn't mean I don't run Perl software when it's the best.

I do agree there is a difference between what you do in the privacy
of your home and in public.

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