QUOTE(Somey @ Sun 2nd August 2009, 10:59am)
QUOTE(KevinOKeeffe @ Sun 2nd August 2009, 3:01am)
And while I no longer hate people for being Jewish, I did not subsequently decide it was a good idea to become an adherent to orthodox socio-political thought.
Meaning what, that you just have a sort of vague feeling of unease about them now, maybe?
In point of fact, and since you ask, I do happen to believe that the so-called "War on Terror" is little more than an excuse to wage war on Israel's enemies, and that this is, as they say, no accident. If you wish to characterize such criticism of United States foreign policy as "anti-Semitism," that is your privilege. The truth is that each end of the political spectrum has a blind spot on matters pertaining to the Middle East; people on the far-right blame the U.S. government's perfidious mass murder on Zionists, whereas people on the far-left blame it on the multinational petrochemical & defense industries. That is a false dichotomy. Its not one, its not the other; its both.
QUOTE(Somey @ Sun 2nd August 2009, 10:59am)
Just bear in mind that anti-semitism is one of those things we're very sensitive about here on WR... That doesn't mean we ban all such folks on sight or anything, but I'm afraid it does mean the pretext threshold is much lower.
Be that as it may, I never came to this board with any intention of discussing Zionism, or any other matters pertaining to American, European, and/or global Jewry. In every single instance (as we can see above), the subject was raised by others, and directed towards me. I have only responded to that which was put to me. If you don't want people discussing these matters here, I suggest you stop asking me about them, and request that others similarly refrain.