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nancy knox-bierman's avatar

Israel does what it wishes. It wishes genocide and if we call it that , the estab;ishment has been trained to attack us like the inbred yard dogs they are.

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Graham Vincent's avatar

Instead of "sic", the command is "terrorist".

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nancy knox-bierman's avatar

racist anti-semite.

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Graham Vincent's avatar

Well, no. While a racist is someone who holds an unwarranted grudge against a given race, one that is based on no evidence and no rationale, if I'm to be named as a racist in consideration of what the Israelis are doing in Gaza, then it is a name I carry with pride. Anyone who has a smattering of conscience is racist against that kind of behaviour.

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Lisa's avatar

You've gotten her meaning wrong. She was saying, "racist anti-semite" is also a "sic" command.

(In response to your suggestion that "terrorist" is the "sic" command.)

I think you may not have noticed the fact that she is the same person who wrote the original comment.

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Graham Vincent's avatar

Yes, I think you're right. However, her comment was brief and of a caustic nature, and she didn't come back herself to clarify the misunderstanding. What I tried to do was make my point forcefully, without castigating her. Admittedly, there seemed to be a mismatch between her initial point and what looked like a perfunctory retort.

My own retort is not without consequence. It is in line with the act of appropriation that linguistically occurs amongst, say, Black communities in relation to the "N" word, or gay communities in relation to the insults hurled at them. Within the closed walls of the community itself, the insult is turned against the assailant and used freely without baggage or invective.

As far as "racist" is concerned, we have long since reached a turning point in terms of its actual meaning. For that, Nancy is entirely right: "racist" has ceased to mean what I defined it as. As invective, it simply elides over the absence of grounds for the criticism: "You don't like me? I am of a race. You therefore bear a grudge against me, and against my race, and therefore you are a racist."

The horror of which the Israeli government is the sole author - any pretence to justification arising from the acts of 7 October is long since in desuetude - is defended inter alia by means of accusations of racism on the part of those who would decry it. So, at this turning point, I have no alternative but to respond, "Indeed, I decry it. And if doing so for the reasons for which I decry it means that in your eyes I am guilty of racism, then I will stand up and be counted as a racist, on that if no other ground, and simultaneously decry as much your rape of our language as your rape of the Palestinian people."

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Bob - Enough's avatar

Maybe just explain what a Semite is to her !?.

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Lisa's avatar

You've gotten her meaning wrong. She is the same person who wrote the original comment.

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Graham Vincent's avatar

I'm not sure I'm inclined to explain anything to someone who deploys the term "diddly do da". But, please, be my guest.

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nancy knox-bierman's avatar

I am a white lady. I get called racist all diddly do da day long.

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damien flinter's avatar

"One thing to understand about Zionists is that lying comes just as naturally to them as cruelty."

Of course, Zionism is the chi£d of ye o£de Brutish Vampire and Protestant fundamentalist British Israelism, concocted in the 16th century when they decided, in their biblical narcissism, they must be one of the 'lost tribes of the chosen people'; synonym for master race.

Seed like that self-d€£U$ion can but produce a pyramidiKKK hoU$€ of card-sharp fruits such as the blatant genocide unfolding while its extended fami£y of messianiKKK Nato financiers and supplers 'have their bacKKK$'.

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Jennifer Akdemir's avatar

This right here. Well said, Damien.

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damien flinter's avatar

It needs to be said...and the word needs to spread.

To acquiesce in this obscenity is not only to comply with homicide, but to kill our own humanity.

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Jennifer Akdemir's avatar

I couldn't agree more.

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

Whoever stays silent now, will be next in the row ... ALL Goys are Palestinians !!!

Just imagine the Western MSM's total outrage if China, India, Russia, Venezuela, Iran or any other non-alligned entity would commit just 0.1% of these atrocities occurring in front of our very eyes

on a daily basis ...

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Lisa's avatar

Excellent reference.

The Clintons only bemoaned the deplorables, when the deplorables turned on them, in favour of Trump.

The Clintons spent their entire lives feeding that deplorable racism — that grotesque entitlement & racist disregard for human life — while whistling for those racist dogs (those self-same deplorables) to join the Clintons' pack.

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

BINGO !!!👍👍👍

Well, it's the same gang of global cleptocrats in action ...

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Johann Goergen's avatar

Once you officially adopt ethnic superiority as State Policy, you end up mass-murdering those you see as inferior. Example: Zionist Israel. Shameful that the so-called civilized West plays accomplice to such genocide. All Western Governments need to disappear, and soon.

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

Good luck with that !!!

But seems to be essential if humanity wants to have a future worth living.

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liam's avatar

All life is impermanent, and when we die and stand before our God or Gods, we will be asked for our accountability here on Earth, and we can proudly state that “I spoke out against the atrocities here on Earth, I was Kind and had Compassion for my fellow man!

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Sol Sön's avatar

Can you imagine if israel and its supremacists so called chosen people bloody cult would have never existed?

Perhaps time to start thinking about it.

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W.F.Miloglav's avatar

Hopefully not too late to unexist it.

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Cyprian DeCoteau's avatar

✊🏿🍉🤲🏿

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Liz Thompson's avatar

Until we stop the deaths and feed those starving, we are guilty of complicity with our government's inaction. Our government is guilty of genocide with every weapon it sends to Israel.

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Ron Stockton's avatar

"The level of evil is incomprehensible." I have struggled to describe what is happening and cannot find words that adequately do so. It is true that this level of evil is incomprehensible. It's equivalent to what Europeans did to indigenous peoples of the Americas, of what happened in Rwanda and is happening in Sudan. The difference is, none of those incomprehensible evils have been broadcast live. But this is not just about what Israelis and Zionists are doing, almost all western and Arab nations are participants in this genocide and I don't think we've actually had a genocide before where this many nations have been intent on erasing one particular group of people. Surely, the acceptance of the attacks on European Jews in the 1930s and 40s must have come close, at least for western nations, but the attempt to erase the Palestinians has more supporters than even Hitler had. The Zionists and the Israelis know about genocide and erasing a people and that is why they target the children and babies. You destroy the future, age will take care of the adults.

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Kevin Donnellon's avatar

"All of them must be held accountable." 100% agree - but I fear none of them will be :(

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David Payne's avatar

Money for politicians has become more valuable than lives!

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Baz's avatar

The time has come for citizens in the west to mutiny - a general strike for starters.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

Good idea. General strike. Boycott. Shut down as many corporations that support genocide as possible.

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Baz's avatar

I’m not sure how many of the unions and their leaders have been compromised - workers in the arms industry almost certainly.

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Diana van Eyk's avatar

Shame on Israel! Shame on Malta! Shame on everyone who enables this genocide, starvation of children, murder of civilians, aid workers, journalists and teachers and destruction of homes, schools, hospitals and vital infrastructure.

If your ideology supports this, you need a new ideology.

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A stands for privacy's avatar

Hypothetical question. If all the palestinians die of famine what will the west say? "We didnt know that" or what????

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

I think the West will just ignore the fact that the Palestinians ever existed in the first place. It seems to be their go-to tactic--to just ignore anything is happening, so why not just ignore there were ever any indigenous peoples of Palestine in the first place? Truly evil.

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Adeel Mirza's avatar

The Devil IsRael

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Dean's avatar

Can we stop calling this a genocide and start calling it what it actually is?

This is a Holocaust!

The 20th century's Holocaust was enacted against the jews...

The 21st century's Holocaust is enacted BY the jews...

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Michael  Lynch's avatar

BULLSEYE! And in some circles, no one seems to care!

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Dean's avatar

Yep, and, that's the TRUE anti-Semitism

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