On Aug 17, 2005, at 11:46 AM, William T Goodall wrote:
Ha! If you're anti-religious, you must by definition also be
anti-semitic, since TTBOMK being Jewish is not defined so much as an
ethnic class as it is holding a religious tradition.
(See how easy it is to throw around a charge of anti-semitism?)
I've got nothing against the poor deluded people who are enthralled by
these poisonously evil memes. It's the wicked evil obnoxious filth of
the religious ideas I'm against whether they are Jewish, Christian,
Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Nazi, Stalinist, Scientologist...
:D
By the "logic" of some "arguments" kicked out here in the last couple
of days, the very fact that the Jewish faith is included in your list
of ideas you oppose makes you anti-semitic.
Naturally I'm not accusing you of that; I'm trying to point out how
useless such a charge is, and how easy it is to make it, and why I find
it so very disappointing that it's surfaced at all.
Just because you disapprove of the activities of a group that *happens
to include* Jewish people does not, of course, make you anti-semitic;
anyone who would make such a claim based solely on this "evidence"
alone is speaking unwisely, and is not interested in addressing the
*real* point of your disapproval. It's a hell of a fine way to deflect
a discussion into name-calling, but it's not behavior I associate with
mature, reasoned dialogue.
--
Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books
http://books.nightwares.com/
Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror"
http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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