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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: kmurphy004kmurphy004 Date: Aug 1, 2007 15:01
On 1-Aug-2007, chazwin yahoo.com> wrote:
>> One of the advantages of being a honkey is that there is nothing you
>> can call me that will elicit an emotional response. Some niggers have
>> figured that out.
>>
>> PBS, the network for oreos and nigger lovers, has yet to get it.
>
> The debate concerning words as applied to racism is a complete red-
> herring.
> It is not the words that are used but the way in which those words are
> employed.
> Quentin Tarrentino can say "nigger" because we get the idea that he
> employs black people in his films and thinks they are cool. In fact he
> probably wants to be black.
> There are aspects of black culture that are very difficult to
> criticise due to suspicion of racism, just like the assumption that to
> criticise Israeli politics is to be anti-semitic. This is another
> tragic consequence of race relations PCness.
> Blacks who enjoy, listen to, and pay for "gansta wrap" and other
> musical forms which revel in the protrayal of black youth as
> misogynistic and criminal are participating in their own exploitation.
> They encourage the negative image of the black-male as monsterous
> gorrilla who you would not trust with a job involving any
> responsibility. And the white-led music industry feeds the frenzy to
> keep "niggers" in their place.
> You might say - well we all know that most black people are fair hard
> working decent family loving humans no different from the best white
> folks, but how many employers hesitate and think of the image of
> "niggers" in the media?
>
>
> On the Jewsish question...
> Is it antisemitic to suggest that Israel is an army of occupation: by
> a foreign force which has disenfranchised millions of Palestinians? Is
> it antisemitic to ask if the Jews have a valid claim for that piece of
> land granted to them via the British mandate aquired after the fall of
> the Ottoman Empire in 1918?
> Was there ever a Jewish state? The last claim the such a thing ended
> for the last time during the reign of Emperor Hardrian. If Europe were
> to use the second century AD as a model for modern national boundaries
> then all of England would have to be turned over to the Welsh, Cornish
> and Scots, and the English would have to return to Germany as would
> the French. If you were to be really serious about it and not disclude
> the Roman Empire then Italy would have to be given totalitarian
> control of the European Union. What would happen to the USA, Australia
> - need I go on.?
> So the modern myth which suggest that the Iranian president's view
> that there is no such place as Israel is not correct to lambast him.
> Israel is an occupied colony, it does not have a natural right to
> exist anymore than Iraq.
Gosh, aren't we so civil these days. I was so so primed for the accusation
of... the b-word (bigotry). It is not a complete red herring because there
are people making a big deal lately about the use of the n-word... and so I
was prepared to compromise my position (such that I would not be guilty of
bigotry). Nobody is really that serious about it and I think the reason why
might be due to the fact that the middle class wants desperately to distance
themselves from the class immediately below it. I think one thing that
rap/hip-hop music has accomplished is to greatly diminish the notion that
class is purely a function of wealth distribution/income. The middle class
wants everybody put on notice that you are not a part of their group if you
are not in compliance with their rules no matter how much money you have. I
personally have always believed because of my upbringing that class is
purely a function of intelligence/level of education.
On the Jewish question...
What was kind of an obstacle to overcome growing up for me is that there is
all this religion based on the Bible which came from the Hebrews and it is
perplexing. Well, you know, what I say is that the Hebrews were the
intelligencia of the ancient times. If you really want to put a stick in
the craw of the Jews/semites it would pay to make a clear distinction
between semetic and Jew. Semetic is an ethnic designation and Jewish is a
religion. There is no such thing as an atheistic Jew although there may be
such a thing as an atheistic semite. Jews think that they can hide behind
ethnicity as a means to avoid scrutiny and it doesn't fly in a free country
with free speech rights.
--
Overheard:"If I am a friend of the family then I at least must be from
Texas. You shouldn't worry your pretty little head about politics, baby, if
it is something that you're curious about, just ask an adult and we'll keep
you informed."
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