"The man's an anti-semite. I have as little respect for him as I do for any of the other anti-semites who are mentioned around here, from Koffi Annan to Pat Buchanan."
How is an being an anti-Semite any different from being anti-Catholic, anti-Mormon, or anti-Muslim? Hatred is hatred. Goodness knows, there can't so much as an article come up on FR about Mitt Romney and it becomes open season on Mormons. The difference is that we don't have the ADL or B'nai B'rith organizations to villanize those who defame Mormons. And it's open game on FR to attack Muslims for their religion.
I don't justify Mel Gibson's tirade, I just don't see why speaking evil of Jews is any worse than speaking evil of other faiths. It's one thing to debate doctrines, it's another to demonize individuals who believe those tenets. America has a long legacy of religious intolerance. It's the last form of bigotry we've really left untouched.
Now that you've gotten that out of your system, when exactly did I say anti-semitism was any different from being anti-anything else?
You seem to have a bone to pick with someone, but I'm quite sure what I wrote that made you unload all this on me.
Or is this an example of that variety of PC which says that if I say one thing, I then have to say a dozen other things to placate anyone who might be looking for a fight--say, if I say "Being anti-German is wrong" I then have to rattle off every other ethnic group and say being anti-everything else is wrong?
It's an odd defensiveness I find among all groups, their need to have their particular hurt soothed at all times.
We're not talking about those other things. I'm saying anti-semitism is something I don't respect. If we want to talk about other varieties of bigotry, I may post to those threads if I feel so moved. But don't unload on me because someone insulted you--it wasn't me.
Good post
Geez my first post in a year, and it's on a thread right next with nearly my namesake...
GO PAT GO!
I almost have a website now i guess...LOLOLOL
I'm anti-Neo-CON by the way. It's disgusting how these wanna be world cop neo-CON turkeys are dragging America down.