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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 04:35 PM
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244. While I agree that those are unacceptable terms to agree to...
...please note the difference in Discord's example: the majority citizen attacking a minority citizen, and a minority citizen attacking a majority belief, rather than a majority person.

To put it another way: a German citizen attacking a Jewish citizen in the 1930s is completely different from a Jewish citizen attacking the majority belief in Naziism at that time.

(I am not, not, NOT! equating religious beliefs to Naziism. This was simply the clearest example I could think of.)

My point is that one is attacking a person, and the other is attacking a belief. The first is bigotry, the second is not. Attacking a Jew is anti-Semetic, while attacking Zionism is not.

Hope that doesn't add gasoline to the fire...

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