Reply #9: Some of your analogies don't work...

[newyorican]

BTW - I think it is anti-Semitic to -- consciously or unconsciously --- conflate all Jews - with the Neocons, the Likudniks or Sharon or Wolfowitz.

This one works, but it's also stupid and illogical in addition to anti-Semitic.

That is as racist as conflating LULAC or Cruz Bustamante or Antonio Villaraigosa with FALN

This doesn't work as well as it could. As a person of Latin descent, I would view this as misinformed. A better analogy would be to conflate FALN with all Puerto Ricans. Now that would be racist. Notice the analogy contains a questionable organization and a racial group/nationality, no personalities.

or conflating Clarence Thomas or Ward Connerly or Alan Keyes or Armstrong Williams with Charles Rangel or John Conyers or Cynthia McKinney.

Nope. Doesn't work at all. Too personal. Even conflating any one of these individuals with all African Americans doesn't work. It's more illogical and stupid than racist. Much more.

Examples: Conflating Timmy McViegh with all white Americans is stupid. Conflating W.A.R. with all white Americans is racist.

Conflating Mumia Abu Jamal with all African Americans is stupid. Conflating M.O.V.E. with all African Americans is racist.