Reply #9: Let's give this to you in terms you can understand...

[Violet_Crumble]

Here's the scenario: Somewhere in the US there's a public school where two Jewish students are being integrated. Many of the parents are opposed to this and state their intention to sign a petition to call for the prevention of these Jewish kids being enrolled. One of the parents says: "We don’t want Jewish students in our school and its not just us – our kids don't want them in their classrooms". And then these parents go on to say after complaining that they don't want Jewish kids in the school, what a relief it was to get rid of the African American students, coz you let one in, there'd be a flood of them just like a school down the road....

Now, what would you think if a story like that was posted and someone came along and posted the following?

'At least they are part of an open society which can have disagreements on such matters.

Clearly, not ALL parents are in favor of keeping out Jewish students,<insert look-over-there rant about pet peeve here>

Do you think that is racist?'

Here's what I'd think. I'd be thinking to myself there's something seriously wrong with that post and whoever posted it has some issues if they see it as being merely disagreement in an open society and seem to deliberately ignore the point that what they're actually cherishing and describing as mere disagreement is ugly bigotry. And then when they finish off a post with a Look Over There! Moment and go 'do you think that is racist?', I think that's really hypocritical and displaying incredible double standards, as racism and bigotry isn't labelled as such when it's aimed at the group in the story that they were replying to...