Reply #41: Not always, I've noticed...

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I mean, yr reaction to the slightest whiff of suspected anti-Semitism has definately not been understated. As the rise of anti-Arab hostility in the US appears to have grown very serious since Sept 11, I really can't see how it could rank low, or how recent it is really has anything to do with the seriousness of it....

No, there was nothing accurate in those statements, not unless you believe that Muslims in the US are actually out to Islamicise the US and they have a scary agenda, which I know you don't believe. Making sweeping generalisations about any group of people is a core part of bigotry...

There's no argument in my mind that this woman is a bigot. She makes sweeping statements about a specific group of people, only tempering it at times to proclaim that 'some' may not be like that. It doesn't matter one iota what she used to be. I used to be a Christian. That doesn't give me the right to run round expressing my hatred of Christians. Same goes for yr example about Australia. Bagging the place or the government is not bigoted, but when it turns into sweeping generalisations about the people, then that's a different matter. Along the same lines, as much as I despise the US government, my dislike doesn't extend to the US people...

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