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Originally posted by Sheridan
When the Jews will stop to make anti-christian and anti-muslim threads like as they did many and none of you will come with the "we're the chosen ones" blablabla (Personal note: Hahaha.) there will be less anti-semitism here at ATS.
Originally posted by Sheridan
But while you're creating hate, don't count for love not in the world, not even here at ATS. Anti-semitism is the effect of the cause what you're creating. If you don't like the effect, don't give us the cause, what breeds the effect.
Originally posted by alien
reply to post by jsobecky
Absolutely.
As stated in a previous reply some of my ancestors engaged in ritualistic cannibalism... ('Ritualistic' Cannibalism? Is that in any way better than "Hey, I'm hungry, how about you come over my place for dinner" run-of-the-mill cannibalism? )
...but again the point is do you tar and feather every person within that 'group' due to the actions of some of their members. What is it that is abhorrent...the person/people or the action?
[edit on 5-10-2008 by alien]
Originally posted by alien
If so - what race/culture are you? Is there history within your own people that I can highlight and point out the splinter in your own eye??
Originally posted by Freeborn
I find it dis-heartening that people can't differentiate between the Israeli nation / state and Jewish people.
Originally posted by jsobecky
Would there be as much anti-semitism if the Jews were still wandering the Earth looking for their Promised Land?
If I wanted distracting, non confronting, sanitized, censored, spun, manipulated, digestable, entertaining, condescending, patronizing, homogeneous, numbing, agenda setting, polarizing, conforming, advertising, branded, ratings based content I'd turn on the TV. Instead I come to ATS
non confronting, sanitized, censored, spun, manipulated, digestable, entertaining, condescending, patronizing, homogeneous, numbing, agenda setting, polarizing, conforming, advertising, branded, ratings based
Originally posted by Freeborn
reply to post by darkangel831
Yes, Israel has become a focal point for anti-semitism.
Israel probably doesn't help itself.
But that does not explain the anti-semitic attitude shown to Jewish communities elsewhere throughout the world, both historically and at present.
I know someone who is firmly convinced that ALL of the world's ill's today are a direct result of some concerted Jewish conspiracy aimed at total world control.
He learnt this from his father, whose father had the same belief.
The same man is otherwise a well reasoned, balanced and educated man.
I would be interested in hearing opinions as to why anti-sematism is so prevalent throughout the world.
Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
reply to post by asmeone2
EXACTLY. I happen to be Wiccan, and I have to hear people calling Wicca a satanic religion all day long because they don't understand it, but do I get all up in arms and call for this to not be tolerated?
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. History teems with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not suppressed forever, it may be thrown back for centuries.
It is a piece of idle sentimentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, of prevailing against the dungeon and the stake.
Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error, and a sufficient application of legal or even of social penalties will generally succeed in stopping the propagation of either.
The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true,
it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it, until some one of its reappearances falls on a time when from favourable circumstances it escapes persecution until it has made such head as to withstand all subsequent attempts to suppress it.
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it.
If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
Originally posted by Crakeur
I'll give you 1000 points for every thread started out by a person of jewish faith who is claiming they're the chosen ones.
I will also deduct 1,000 for every anti-semitic thread started for no reason other than to spew hatred.
Hatred of a people is ignorant. Plain and simple. blaming a group of people for all your own problems is simply not facing reality.
be it black/white/jew/muslim etc, everyone in this group isn't at fault.
sure, there are bad eggs in every batch but that doesn't mean they're all bad. sadly, it is ignorant, close minded thinking that will eventually lead to our destruction.
Originally posted by Crakeur
5 threads from the first page of an ats search for the word jew in titles.
5000 points deducted in 3 seconds of work (don't worry, I'm going to deduct them)
that's without searching for jewish, judaism, israel, zionists etc