Racist? I’d love to hear why you think that’s racist. To me, racism means discriminating against someone because of their race, and that’s not what I’m doing.
I’m just pointing out a reality: how much support Hamas has among Gaza’s population. Of course, not everyone supports them. The real victims here are the people who never supported Hamas, never wanted this war and are trapped in a deadly situation they didn’t create.
But you can’t ignore all those pro-Hamas demonstrations after their attacks on Israel over the years. That has nothing to do with race or ethnicity.
“Palestinians don’t respect other ethnicities or religions” is an example of racism, because it is of the form:
[Ethnic group/race] [has or displays negative personality trait], without any concessions as to individual choice or action (though you tried to add this in your last comment) and without any evidence.
Therefore you are saying that people who are simply born Palestinian are somehow less likely than people born elsewhere to display compassion towards other ethnic groups or religions. Since compassion in general is a common human trait, and almost universally held as a positive one, you are dehumanising Palestinians as a whole in this statement, which is clearly also to say, discriminating against them.
It is the most naked type of racism, down there with ideas like, “the blacks are more violent”, " savage tribals" and the like.
I’m trying to give you the benefit of the doubt here and I don’t think I can explain this any more clearly: a statement of the form [Ethnic group/race] is [personality trait] is explicitly racist, and that’s the type of statement you have made here.
(It’s worth pointing out that the word “all” is correctly inferred unless you specify a subset. So where you’ve written “Palestinians”, because of the nature of the English language, that means “all Palestinians” by default.)
Can you not see how hideously racist your comment is?
You’re just going to leave that there?
Racist? I’d love to hear why you think that’s racist. To me, racism means discriminating against someone because of their race, and that’s not what I’m doing.
I’m just pointing out a reality: how much support Hamas has among Gaza’s population. Of course, not everyone supports them. The real victims here are the people who never supported Hamas, never wanted this war and are trapped in a deadly situation they didn’t create.
But you can’t ignore all those pro-Hamas demonstrations after their attacks on Israel over the years. That has nothing to do with race or ethnicity.
“Palestinians don’t respect other ethnicities or religions” is an example of racism, because it is of the form:
[Ethnic group/race] [has or displays negative personality trait], without any concessions as to individual choice or action (though you tried to add this in your last comment) and without any evidence.
Therefore you are saying that people who are simply born Palestinian are somehow less likely than people born elsewhere to display compassion towards other ethnic groups or religions. Since compassion in general is a common human trait, and almost universally held as a positive one, you are dehumanising Palestinians as a whole in this statement, which is clearly also to say, discriminating against them.
It is the most naked type of racism, down there with ideas like, “the blacks are more violent”, " savage tribals" and the like.
I’m trying to give you the benefit of the doubt here and I don’t think I can explain this any more clearly: a statement of the form [Ethnic group/race] is [personality trait] is explicitly racist, and that’s the type of statement you have made here.
(It’s worth pointing out that the word “all” is correctly inferred unless you specify a subset. So where you’ve written “Palestinians”, because of the nature of the English language, that means “all Palestinians” by default.)