Hi Noel de Leon; Re: "Miscegenation is the marriage or cohabitation of a white person with a person of another race. The laws in Israel are not racist but rather are anti mixed religious marriage."
I know this. You had to quote me out of context in order to imply that I didn't. Here's my full quote, with the part that you quoted in bold:
Like I said before, the reason that the US Southern states no longer have miscegenation laws, along with all the other racist stuff, is that the majority of the US forced them to change. That the 85% of Israel that is "secular" is unable to change their laws is ridiculous, and can hardly be excused any more than a similar failing on the part of an Arab state.
Nowhere have I ever said that Israel has laws against miscegenation. As a pedagogical note, by the way, miscegenation is a more general term than your definition: "Miscegenation is the marriage or cohabitation of a white person with a person of another race." The standard definition is: The interbreeding of different races or of persons of different racial backgrounds.
dictionary.reference.com
But why are you bothering to pick on (nonexistent) errors in the use of the definitions of words? People are dying, and you're wasting a post on (a somewhat misleading definition of) the meaning of the word "miscegenation".
The simple fact is that Israel has laws that make Moslems into second class citizens. The southern US once had laws that made blacks into second class citizens. Both these sets of laws are wrong, (and not just the marriage laws, the whole collection of those laws), no matter what you want to call them.
When our blacks revolted, we fixed our laws. When Israel's Moslems revolted, they didn't do a damned thing, except to continue the suppression, and then act innocent when the result is that the Palestinians fought back.
-- Carl |
