A remark to Dr. Dawkins: JKC wrote in the above e-mail: "...the fact that neither muslims nor women nor feminists nor radical feminists are examples of races NECSS was unable to specify what race the song was making fun of...."
When a child (1922-38) in Central Europe, I did encounter many times the word equivalent (but not exactly identical) to 'racist' as referred to "anti-semites". It was used to someone biased and hateful towards a group of "DIFFERENT" people who might have been of the same race as well. The Hungarian expression was indeed rather closer to the meaning - "race-protector" than to "race hater" fighting to eliminate "Jewish-input". To enforce the "Hingarian race" (again a misnomer, not used to point to the Asian origin of the Magyars vs the Indo-Europeans (Germanics, Slavs, Scandinavians etc.) which would have benn no-racial difference either. John M On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 1:41 PM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > The scourge of political correctness has hit Richard Dawkins yet again. > Just days before he was to give the keynote speech at The Northeast > Conference on Science and Skepticism (NECSS) he was disinvited because > Professor Dawkins retweeted a song in a video making fun of both Islam and > radical feminism. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecJUqhm2g08 > He tweeted the link with this caveat "Obviously this doesn't apply to the > vast majority of feminists, among whom I count myself. But the minority is > pernicious". Soon afterward he learned that the woman in the song was based > on a real woman who had allegedly been threatened online for her > activities, so Professor Dawkins sent another tweet "Having learned that > the woman in the joke song is a real person who has been disgracefully > threatened with violence, I'm deleting my tweets. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE > don't EVER threaten anyone with violence. We should be free to use > comedy/ridicule without fear it may inspire violence". That was not good > enough for the humorless moral paragons over at NECSS because they kicked > him out at the last moment saying the video was racist; although given the > fact that neither muslims nor women nor feminists nor radical feminists are > examples of races NECSS was unable to specify what race the song was making > fun of. Apparently The Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism is > also skeptical of the value of logic as were the people who were outraged a > few years ago when Professor Dawkins wrote "Mild pedophilia is bad. Violent > pedophilia is worse. If you think that's an endorsement of mild pedophilia, > go away and learn how to think." > > John K Clark > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
