The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #143239   Message #3324478
Posted By: MGM·Lion
18-Mar-12 - 08:27 AM
Thread Name: BS: Homs horror (Syria, 2012)
Subject: RE: BS: Homs horror
Not very clearly specified at that post, Jim. You appear simply to have refd me back to something on a v old thread. As I see it, you accused me of being selective in my anti-racism ~ of only being anti-racist when Jews are concerned. I refuted that accusation, pointing out the posts I had contributed objecting to Israeli policies; and reiterating that I was opposed to all racism, but that this did not blind me to the faults of certain demographics, such as sexually exploitative young Paksitanis, or oppressive mid-eastern regimes with loathsome criminal codes like Saudi [& I might have added, going back in history a bit, that of Idi Amin]. My point was that objecting to the activities of such is not racist merely because they belong to a different ethnicity from my own; and it seemed to me that this latter fact tends to blind you to their malpractices, and lead you to accuse those of us who are trying to express objections to such attitudes and activities on their part of racism, simply because of their ethnicity. It is my opinion that it is you who have provided no satisfactory response to this point - although you did, oddly, express some support on a thread I once OP'd on Accusations of Racism being used as a Shield against Criticism. I can otoh find no point you have made against me, or any question you have put to me, to which I have failed to furnish a reasoned response.

Ball in your court.

~M~