re: #124 Obdicut

It’s not racist. It’s culturalist. And it’s partly true, just the way it would have been true to say that blacks, in slavery, were illiterate, superstitious, and uneducated. Because they were.

That doesn’t excuse any sort of treatment of them in any way. They’re still human. However, it is still true that the average Palestinian— really, the average one, not the wild-eyed extremist— believes a large number of slanders about Jews and Israel that are not true.

Look, if we can decry the Republicans for the bullshit they feed their adherents, and we can bemoan the fact that more than fifty percent of GOP members think that Obama wants to promote shariah law, then surely we can also bemoan the fact that Palestinians support Hamas and do not even endorse the legitimacy of Israel as a nation?

Quoted for being absolutely true. Any statements like that I have absolutely no objection to.

That, however, is not what others are saying.