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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (9821)	1/18/2006 6:52:50 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 22250

Gus > just because I relentlessly condemn the policies and the wars waged by white governments and countries, you cunningly brand me as an anti-white racist. You said it, so you can hardly blame me for following suit. But you have never given me the reason for your attitude -- if you are white then you are being a hypocrite and if you are not white then then you are an anti-white racist. So, you are free to choose choose which epithet it is to be. > isn't it ironic that such an avowed, out-and-out anti-Zionist like you resorts, somewhat bathetically, to the Zionist tactics of smearing one's opponents with the slur of anti-Semitism? Yes, it is ironic, but nonetheless, my "anti-black-semitism" is appropriate and not simply based on prejudice. As I have mentioned repeatedly, my family and I are being discriminated against by anti-white legislation enacted by the ANC government allegedly in reaction to crimes committed by people who I, too, regard with contempt, namely the Afrikaner Nationalist government. Furthermore, these laws are in direct violation of the democratic constitution of the country. But because it was expedient for the ANC to do so they did and fell into the same trap as the Nationalist government. I can assure you that if you were in my shoes, you would feel the same way. Indeed, I strongly suspect that because of your persistent anti-white feeling you are -- but are wearing shoes of a different colour. > you deviously seek to debunk and defuse my (geo)political and social critiques by psychologizing them as racist lunacies spawned by a twisted mind That's bullshit. I have never said so so don't put words in my mouth. Because your anti-white prejudice comes through in what you say you can hardly blame me, the listener, for hearing it. And if you had a twisted mind I doubt I would be corresponding with you day after day for a very long time already. You may imply that you are nuts but I don't believe I am. Different, yes, but not crazy. > For instance, over here in Europe, pro-business conservatives and rightwing pundits have coined the notion of "anti-rich racism". They dismiss leftist activists, unionists, anarchists and other commies as mere "anti-rich racists". It is true, nevertheless. People adopt their position in the argument as result of the circumstances they find themselves in. In other words, their subjectivity. For example, I doubt you would hear someone living in extreme poverty extol the virtues of capitalism and, likewise, someone who is very wealthy promoting the joys of socialist redistribution of wealth (unless he was a politician, of course). I doubt you would hear a Palestinian extol the virtues of the State of Israel or an evangelist promoting Islam. Indeed, I maintain that people argue from the position of their own self-interest and not because of some abstract intellectualisation and one is right to assume this is so unless one has proof to the contrary.