Cool story.
https://twitter.com/richarddawkins/stat ... 72?lang=en
because he promotes "Islamaphobia"
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Wortfish wrote:
OK. I stand corrected.But there are many people who do claim that Jews are a race and that anti-semitism is racism.
Matthew Shute wrote:
It should be obvious that if you can convert into and out of something, at any time, then it's not a race in any biological sense.
Thomas Eshuis wrote:Claiming Jews to be a race also excludes them from other semitic people, especially the Arabs. Which leads to the use of anti-semitism as a misnomer.
Wortfish wrote: Most Jews don't speak a Semitic language. I would concede that "race" has generally referred to a group with a distinctive ancestry, but it is not properly defined.
Thomas Eshuis wrote:
The point is that both Arabs and Jews are Semitic people, at least linguistically and thus to use anti-semitism to refer exclusively to intolerance of Jews is a misnomer.
Wortfish wrote:Thomas Eshuis wrote:
The point is that both Arabs and Jews are Semitic people, at least linguistically and thus to use anti-semitism to refer exclusively to intolerance of Jews is a misnomer.
As I say, most Jews don't speak Hebrew...they speak Yiddish, English, Russian, Ladino, Persian...and Dutch.
Wortfish wrote: Also, there is some doubt about whether modern Hebrew is a Semitic language when much of its syntax, vocabulary and grammar come from European languages.
Wortfish wrote:felltoearth wrote:ISIS isn't evil. Saudi and Iranian torture and beheading isn't evil?
A highly appropriate term in my books.
At least in Saudi Arabia and Iran the execution of unborn children is illegal. Why is that AI and other "human rights groups" have no complaints about millions of foetuses "aborted" in the West, some in development for over 20 weeks?
felltoearth wrote:Wortfish wrote:felltoearth wrote:ISIS isn't evil. Saudi and Iranian torture and beheading isn't evil?
A highly appropriate term in my books.
At least in Saudi Arabia and Iran the execution of unborn children is illegal. Why is that AI and other "human rights groups" have no complaints about millions of foetuses "aborted" in the West, some in development for over 20 weeks?
It tells you everything you need to know about abortion laws.
There are abortion threads for this argument. And it's a shitty argument.
felltoearth wrote:Is he opposed to the Iranian State for those reasons?
I thought it was for the torture and killing of dissidents and infidels.
felltoearth wrote:Actually I can't find an commentary by Dawkins on Iran in particular. Can you direct me to some or any statement?
"They suffer from the homophobia, the misogyny, the joylessness, which is preached by extreme Islam, ISIS and the Iranian regime,”
Wortfish wrote:felltoearth wrote:Actually I can't find an commentary by Dawkins on Iran in particular. Can you direct me to some or any statement?
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/06/12 ... the-world/"They suffer from the homophobia, the misogyny, the joylessness, which is preached by extreme Islam, ISIS and the Iranian regime,”
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