Nah, Jewish or jewish or whatever is not a race.
The term Jewish refers to either a religion or a culture.
Most Jews are basic white europeans. Some Jews are semitic people comparable to Persians and Arabs. A small number of Jews are black people.
So, no, I don’t think antisemitism is racism.
For the sake of continuity I will re-post what I posted. I had decided just to let it go, but you responded very quickly. I wrote something like:
Not sure what that has to do with anti-semitism.
In answer to your question, I’d imagine there’s a special word for it because (1) most Jews running around Europe are basically white so racism doesn’t really work and (2) because it’s such a common very specific form of irrational hate that it gets its own very special name.
Trump likes Jews and Israel, you know.
Some goading is effective. Some ineffective. It tends to be more effective against idiots.
Hopefully people on here are smart enough not to go off into the street with a gun because some anonymous moron asked “when will somebody do something?”
Sorry you’re not making sense. There are whole industries based on persuading people to do things and intelligence agencies employ people to manipulate news and public discourse to affect public opinions and the decisions of individuals.
I agree with you that people are accountable for their actions, but that’s quite beside the point.
As a factual matter, a human being can be goaded into doing something. When that person is goaded into doing that thing then he will be responsible for his actions, notwithstanding that he was goaded. Being goaded does not mean you were not responsible. They are not mutually exclusive.
EDIT: To clarify — goaded means induced to act. It doesn’t mean making the choice for you. It’s creating an atmosphere of pressure and false sense of support that tilts somebody’s decision making so they make a choice they might not have made in the absence of that inducement. People are induced to do things all the time.
Well, I think at this point the media have so little credibility that they can’t really impact the race, so they’re not relevant. And the Democrats are not so good on messaging — they just can count on the media to parrot their message (and cover for their miscues) so they seem very coordinated. Where that goes wrong is they’re in a bubble and don’t know how the public is really feeling so the message they transmit is often totally wrong and backfires.
I think how the Kenosha Kid ultimately plays will depend on facts. It looks like he was defending himself, and the public can see these people were violent and are tired of the rioting, so they will back the guy if he was just defending himself.
The big question I have is why was he there and what was he doing. If he was protecting his dad’s store, that’s one thing. If he traveled from Illinois to Wisconsin with his rifle in order to to get himself involved in mayhem, that may not play so well long term.
I don’t really know enough about what he was doing and why he was there.
I’m not following you. You can be goaded into doing something and still be responsible for your actions.
I have concerns that there are some provocateurs active trying to get conservatives to commit violence. You see posts on this site from people saying “when will people so something?” “How long are we going to take this?” Blah blah blah
If the poster wanted to do something, he could just do it and post video of his brave actions. But these posters are not interested in acting themselves. They’re looking to instigate other people to act and bear the consequences.
People on this site need to be smart.
I’m very suspicious of posters trying to goad people into participating in the violence. It’s up to people to defend their homes and families. People should not be driving across state lines to violently engage with the loonies. The Constitution recognizes the right of the local population (the militia), bearing their own arms, to defend themselves. If people in places like Portland are too weak to stand up for themselves, and insist on electing leadership that feeds them into the woodchipper, then they’re responsible for their fate.
For when they swalloweth the big reddeth pill that shall be the 2020 election result, and the veil of lies woven by demagogues that now covers their eyes is cast aside, they shall be most open to thy message. - Not Proverbs
Approval is not the same as “voting for” but I expect Trump will get historic support from the black community as compared to recent Republican candidates. The question is whether the extra support he gets from minorities will offset any losses among white women. White ladies for whatever reason are most open to voting for Biden to make rioters feel better. You can see it in the BLM protests where young white women are really the dominant force.
No, we weren’t going round and round :). We had just about reached the logical “end of the line” in your reasoning and had nowhere else to go. So you got off the train before it crashed.
Finishing out the thought — if it’s possible to hate all Jews, if we understand what that phrase means, then we can have a special word for that, like “antisemitic.”
Your argument that “antisemetic” is a meaningless term is another way of saying “Jewish” is a meaningless term. It sounds like a weird attempt to argue Jews don’t exist. That’s pretty antisemetic. :)