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To: LindyBill who wrote (116858)	5/28/2005 5:25:32 PM
From: miraje	Respond to of 793606

Damn! That's a good essay. Orson Scott Card has written some excellent sci-fi novels, especially his earlier stuff.

To: LindyBill who wrote (116858)	5/28/2005 7:45:41 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793606

That may be why the media isn't tougher on the Muslims. In a way, they recognize them. As people who don't like Bush either. It is also multi-culturalism, whose practical, functional result is that you aren't allowed to judge brown people (somehow the multi-culture thing always seems to walk hand in hand with race), only those you have identified as "white" or "European" or "modern" or in some sense, you. This seeps into all conflicts between "us" and "them". You see the efforts to define Israel as "us" so that they can stand up and be judged as a white, modern country, which of the course the Palestinians aren't, so they get an entirely different standard. It routinely leads to such absurdities as claiming that Israelis are white while Palestinians are not (both peoples are extremely racially mixed, the Jews if anything more so; if there is a Israeli edge in whiteness, it is very slight. There are plenty of black Jews but to my knowledge no black Palestinians.) I have also seen declarations that the Israelis have no "right" to define Jewishness based on inheritance or ethnic identity because they are a "modern" country; naturally, nobody ever says any such thing about the Palestinians or other Arabs.