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aranthus

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22. For defining racism I go with a dictionary.
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 12:46 AM
Oct 2016

From dictionary.com:

Racism:

1. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
2. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.
3. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.

So are Palestinians a race? No they are not. Does Glick exhibit hostility to Palestinians based on their genetics? No she does not. Does she believe that Palestinians in general are hostile to Jews and to Jewish national existence in Israel? Yes she does. But unless you can show that she believes that all individual Palestinians believe that, then she isn't even engaging in unfair stereotyping. She's talking about Palestinians as a nation, as a set of group beliefs. And in that context her observations are pretty spot on. So she's not lying. She's not engaging in hatred based on race, and on the face of it, she is not even engaging in unfair stereotyping.

As an athiest... kristopher Oct 2016 #1
It's more than that. aranthus Oct 2016 #2
Good point. Giving up a nation's sovereignty peacefully is absurd & unheard of. shira Oct 2016 #17
I'm opposed to Zionism because I'm against all forms of nationalism that promote ethnic superiority Little Tich Oct 2016 #3
What's racist is actively opposing Jewish nationalism & no other. n/t shira Oct 2016 #5
What's racist is that your dissolving of the Jewish state leads to dead Jews. shira Oct 2016 #16
London's Ultra Orthodox Jews run daily gauntlet of anti-Semitic abuse shira Oct 2016 #25
I don't like the thought of Jewish people having to keep a packed suitcase under their beds, just in Little Tich Oct 2016 #26
You don't like the thought but that's the situation you prefer for Israeli Jews. shira Oct 2016 #27
Maybe I shouldn't do this, but... Little Tich Oct 2016 #4
What do u disagree with? You know what antisemitism is while no one else does? n/t shira Oct 2016 #6
The "new" definition of anti-Semitism that includes criticism of Israel as a form of anti-Semitism Little Tich Oct 2016 #7
You're a self-appointed expert on racism. Everyone else is dumb... shira Oct 2016 #8
I don't think that my views on what constitutes racism differs from the average person Little Tich Oct 2016 #9
I used your definition to prove writings from Mondoweiss & Gideon Levy.... shira Oct 2016 #10
You have only proved to yourself that those writings were racist. Little Tich Oct 2016 #11
I used your criteria & proved it, but let's compare. Here's Gideon Levy... shira Oct 2016 #12
I challenge you to find someone at JPost more racist & vile than Gideon Levy. shira Oct 2016 #13
In addition to Caroline Glick at the Jerusalem Post, I'll provide an example from the Israeli Minist Little Tich Oct 2016 #14
Not to defend Glick, but how is this at all racist? aranthus Oct 2016 #20
For defining racism, I'll just go with "feelings of antipathy towards an ethnic group"... Little Tich Oct 2016 #21
For defining racism I go with a dictionary. aranthus Oct 2016 #22
Your definition that racism only includes racial groups is too narrow in scope and completely Little Tich Oct 2016 #23
It's the dictionary's definition, not mine. aranthus Oct 2016 #24
Before I respond to your examples, do we agree Gideon Levy is racist? shira Oct 2016 #15
Oops, seems like I forgot about Gideon Levy. Little Tich Oct 2016 #18
How is Glick worse than Levy? Explain by comparison please. n/t shira Oct 2016 #19
Rabbi Sacks on Antizionism = Antisemitism... shira Oct 2016 #28
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