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Thread #124081 Message #2742777
Posted By: Lox
10-Oct-09 - 10:33 AM
Thread Name: BS: Tommy Teirnan - raving racist or what?
Subject: RE: BS: Tommy Teirnan - raving racist or what?
Well here you go folks.
It's time to make up your own minds.
It's on dodgy ground and I would decribe it as misjudged.
I wouldn't describe it as evidence that he's an anti-semite.
It happened in a press conference.
He was asked if he had ever been accused of being anti-semitic.
He said yes, he had been once, when he used to tell a joke about who killed Jesus, to which the punchline was "well it wasn't the f***ing mexicans"
He said that two jewish people had complained about this to him.
That is as far as the factual story aboout the two jewish people goes.
They were never actually told to f*** off.
The rest is him reacting to the accusation of being anti semitic.
The way he makes his point is over the top and he was being unrealistic to think that there would not be repercussions.
But his point was "anti semitism doesn't sound like that, it sounds like this"
He's right, anti semitism does sound like that and as a result there will be many who conclude that he is an anti semite.
I'm not one of them.
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