The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #140399   Message #3230426
Posted By: MGM·Lion
28-Sep-11 - 04:56 AM
Thread Name: BS: Palestine
Subject: RE: BS: Palestine
"The logic of your suggestion is that we cannot criticise any ethnic group for fear it will be used by racists."
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No, Jim. The logic of my suggestion is that by making your criticisms, justified as they may be, so entirely disproportionate to their actual triggers, you lay yourself open to charges of being one of those racists.

Can you really not see that? And it's no good getting over this by saying to yourself, "I know I'm not a racist, and for that matter Michael knows it too; so it doesn't matter how much anybody else may misinterpret". Mud will stick; and it is not the sort of mud you will want sticking to you. And you are IMO foolish in the extreme provocatively to make yourself liable, by your hyperbole and over-emphatic over-inflated criticisms & denunciations, to have it flung at you. I repeat that word, Jim: you are being provocative. As the observant character in the Shaw play keeps saying, "You might think you are not, but you are".

With all good wishes ~ genuinely:

~Michael~