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Bigotry and hatred are as old as mankind, it just seems to be an unfortunate fact of human nature,that we can not escape no matter how hard we try. But how does one recognize this vile hatred when one see it. that's a good question,and I will try to point out one way that it can be sure to be found.
Simply change the group targeted to be criticized,and see how it looks to someone out side your group of like minded people.Center left, left, far left, Stalinist left, Chomsky left. Americans are generally not bigots, please don't attempt to make us so.
This was seeded on newsvine yesterday,( Dear Israel Lobby, We Give Up -- Please Give Us an Acceptable Way of Insulting You )
I did not comment, as I found it most troubling, and feared suspension, had I commented.
let me turn this around for a moment, if you will allow me. I replace one historically persecuted group for another. Racism, bigotry, and intolerance's for the "other" is the sole reason, for the historical persecution of said groups.
I Will direct the questin toward the African American lobby, the NAACP.See how it looks.
An open letter to the NAACP. the African American civil rights organisation, we are a group of open racists, who have been calling you the N word, Lynching some of you when we can, but our views are not accepted by the non-racist @!$%#s in the world. Please tell us how to better express our hate full and intolerant views of you N word people. I hate to write this, as you N word people really make me SICK, but as a hateful racist "inbreed" @!$%#, I lack the basic intelligence of a f***ing meal worm, and will take any help I can get. yours sincerely, David Duke and the KKK. (white power salute, the KKK member, inserts his fist in to the anus of David Duke, in a show of white power, and solidarity, he violently thrusts it in)
Is this letter socially acceptable ?
are there groups of people it's Ok to insult, because they deserve it. Isn't that bigotry ? has the definition of bigotry changed, and no one told me ?
Canada is leading the world right now in rejecting intolerance. I would like to see my nation, America, step up to the plate.
The Ottawa Protocol sets some easy to spot classic examples of anti-semitism
We remain alarmed by ongoing state-sanctioned genocidal antisemitism and related extremist ideologies. If antisemitism is the most enduring of hatreds, and genocide is the most horrific of crimes, then the convergence of the genocidal intent embodied in antisemitic ideology is the most toxic of combinations.
We are appalled by the resurgence of the classic anti-Jewish libels, including:
The Blood Libel (that Jews use the blood of children for ritual sacrifice)
he Jews as "Poisoners of the Wells" - responsible for all evils in the world
The myth of the "new Protocols of the Elders of Zion" - the tsarist forgery that proclaimed an international Jewish conspiracy bent on world domination - and accuses the Jews of controlling government, the economy, media and public institutions.
( many examples of this can be found here.) http://kpr37.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/30/9827963-top-palestinian-memri-tv-clips-of-2011
The double entendre of denying the Holocaust - accusing the Jews of fabricating the Holocaust as a hoax - and the nazification of the Jew and the Jewish people.
the claim that the Jews, or Zionists, are the new Nazi's, is a common claim found on inner-net chat rooms.It's a slander and a false charge, by some, with an irrational antipathy toward Israel. Because the comparison does not relate with, or is not supported by any factual observations, and has no independent verification that's supported by reality.
Israel has not invaded any western European nation, has no African colonies, operates no death camps.
Has not now, nor ever had a deal with Russia to divide Poland.
Has no power sharing treaties or agreements with totalitarian Asian nations, and is not aggressively sinking internationally registered Ships, steaming across the North Atlantic conducting free trade. Israel never participated in night bombing raids over London. Has yet to invaded Russia, the Ukraine or any Baltic nations, has not annexed Norway as a Quisling state. Has stolen no works of art from French Museums. Israel does not murder homosexuals or Gypsies as state policy. So excuse me, if I do not view the comparison as anything more than an expression of hate, bigotry and intolerance.
The second claim often associated with the Israeli,Nazi comparison is
The genocide of the Palestinian people continues
The word genocide, refers to the mass killing of a group of people.For ethnic, racial, or religious reasons.
A group of people,(Palestinians) who are in fact undergoing an unprecedented growth rate within that population,can not then claim a genocide is being committed , it's poppycock, utter nonsense, it's anti Israeli propaganda, that does not relate with observable reality or facts supplied by the Palestinians themselves. It's used to inflame religious hatred and inspire others to violence against Jews.
On February 9, 2008, Luay Shabaneh, the new president of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), published the results of a December 2007 Palestinian Authority population census. According to the new data, since 1997, the Arab population has increased to 1,460,000 in the Gaza Strip and 2,300,000 in the West Bank (including 208,000 in East Jerusalem) to a total of 3,760,000 people—an increase of 30 percent in one decade.
a 30% growth in population is not a genocide, it can not be called a genocide in a fact based realistic world.
http://islamonfocus.blogspot.com/2009/04/politics-of-palestinian-demography.html
