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So now you're getting very Stormfronty.

> There are simply to many occasions where American Jews and Israelis celebrate Jewish culture and identity for its own sake, and not merely as a reaction to being singled out by other Whites.

What is wrong with that? Do the Jewish people somehow not deserve existence? Why should we not celebrate our culture and religion the same way Christians, Croats, and Italians do? (for example.)

Also, celebrating our culture is not mutually exclusive with celebrating diversity of cultures.

> The concept of genocide implies that wiping an entire group of people is worse than simply killing the same number of randomly selected people.

Do you dispute that? Generally racism is frowned upon.

Hating because you don't like their personality is acceptable. Hating them for their race isn't.

Killing someone is unacceptable. Killing someone for their race is even less acceptable.

That I have to explain this to you makes me think I might be dealing with anti-semitism.



>What is wrong with that? Do the Jewish people somehow not deserve existence? Why should we not celebrate our culture and religion the same way Christians, Croats, and Italians do? (for example.)

If Jewish people deserve existence (as a group, not individuals), then White people deserve existence as a group.

You say that White people are allowed to celebrate their culture and religion, and yet these are precisely the actions that are demonized as racism or at best ignorant provincialism, by the same liberals Jews I am describing.

You simply cannot have it both ways. My first post described how supporting Israel's existence as a Jewish nation was contradictory to liberal Jew's attitude towards White identity. You now concede that Jewish identity is in fact very similar to White identity. But now you are trying to change the argument, as if I was the one saying that Jewish identity was unacceptable. I'm not. I'm saying it is no more or less acceptable that White identity.

>Killing someone is unacceptable. Killing someone for their race is even less acceptable.

I disagree, but that isn't the point here. The argument against genocide I'm referring to is that it is more wrong because it wipes out a particular race or ethnicity, not because of the mindset of the perpetrator.

>So now you're getting very Stormfronty.

>That I have to explain this to you makes me think I might be dealing with anti-semitism.

You are clutching at straws.


> If Jewish people deserve existence (as a group, not individuals), then White people deserve existence as a group.

This makes no sense. Jewish people as a group have a very long shared cultural and religious history. However, the concept of "white people" is a fairly recent cultural and political construct and has changed dramatically over the years--for example, at one point in the United States Irish and Italians were not considered to be white. You can't compare them in the way you (and the Stormfront crowd) are attempting to.

http://www.salon.com/2010/03/23/history_of_white_people_nell...


The European diaspora has more than 2000 years of shared religion, language and culture.

This is far more significant than some trivia about the word "White" that is making the rounds in progressive circles.




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