Post by Daniel on Jul 28, 2018 9:27:55 GMT -5
If you don’t agree with me, you are a racist!
But seriously, there are so many reasons to oppose the UN plan for asylum seekers that have nothing to do with racism
Melis Erdur
Jul 26, 2018
It is a peculiar fact about “liberals” in Israel and elsewhere that membership in their community comes with a set of unconnected compulsory beliefs. For example, you not only have to be in favor of gay marriage and granting legal status to foreigners who have entered the country illegally, but also think that transgender people are really what they claim to be and have considerable sympathy with the Arab cause in the Israeli-Arab conflict. It is amazing how all such self-identified liberal “independent thinkers” (as they separate themselves from the sheep-like and backward right-wingers) end up arriving at the same conclusions about such a diverse set of issues. The best and the saddest explanation for this curious phenomenon is social pressure: anyone who diverges from these positions is automatically labelled as “homophobic,” “transphobic,” or “racist.”
Just yesterday (7/25/18) the Haaretz editorial has suggested that anyone who is against the UN plan for asylum seekers (according to which Israel would grant status to about 16,000 Eritreans and Sudanese) is a racist: “Xenophobia and a sense of Jewish superiority are so rampant in Netanyahu’s Israel,” it stated, “that some people are incapable of even the minimal generosity needed to absorb a minuscule number of asylum seekers, simply because they threaten the purity of the Jewish nation”.
This is a good example of how easy charges of “racism,” etc., bar diversity of opinion and hinder free and rich public debate. For, surely the issue of asylum seekers is not as simple and straightforward as the editorial suggests, and it is possible for non-racist people to question the UN plan.
Just yesterday (7/25/18) the Haaretz editorial has suggested that anyone who is against the UN plan for asylum seekers (according to which Israel would grant status to about 16,000 Eritreans and Sudanese) is a racist: “Xenophobia and a sense of Jewish superiority are so rampant in Netanyahu’s Israel,” it stated, “that some people are incapable of even the minimal generosity needed to absorb a minuscule number of asylum seekers, simply because they threaten the purity of the Jewish nation”.
This is a good example of how easy charges of “racism,” etc., bar diversity of opinion and hinder free and rich public debate. For, surely the issue of asylum seekers is not as simple and straightforward as the editorial suggests, and it is possible for non-racist people to question the UN plan.
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