Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Arabs are white
Like most Jews...
Ya know, it gets to a point where it becomes superficial. The very concept of race is arbitrary. Which is why in my school days were taught there are Caucasians, Negros and Mongols and now on the EEO forms I have to list myself as Non-Hispanic White.
I think linguistic groups tend to be the most factual of catalogs because archeologists can trace the origins of culture on the basis of language but that doesn't seem to carry over to common conversations. For instance the original Jews (not the white Jews) are Semites, a linguistic group that spans Africa and Arabia and actually includes Arabs. So when someone offends a white Jew and then gets called anti-Semitic, that's actually an erroneous call, because white Jews are not Semitic. And people are way off base when they refer to sympathy for the Palestinians as anti-Semitic because unlike the Jews, ALL Arabs ARE Semitic, including those in the Levant.
Even here on this site I see liberals being called "racist" for opposing Republicans.
So, I dunno bro... Much ado about nothing.
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
I deplore being called a racist...
It's demeaning and almost never correctly used..
Yeah, I'm not really all that hung up about it because I judge people on what they do not what they are, so when someone calls me a racist (which rarely ever happens) I know it's BS. So why fret over "correct use" of a BS accusation?
BTW, I hope you didn't get the impression that I'm calling you a racist. When I mentioned the term it was in response to archie bunkers joke about not letting Mexicans drive. It had nothing to do with him personally or you at all.
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Language is only shifty when interpreted by shifty little progs...
No, language is shifty by nature. Words change meaning over time, many of them such as anti-semitic are used erroneously more often than not and lots of words like "racism" are ambiguous. English in particular is a living language, which means the dictionary is always open to new terms and meanings.
At some point, I think it makes more sense for people to try and understand what people mean rather than getting all persnickety about the correct use of ambiguous terms.
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Anyone with the ability to use a dictionary should be able to understand the terms they toss around... Anything less is senseless babble that should regulate the usr r to the corner while adults converse....
Webster's definition seems to put you in that second "senseless babble" category bro...
race noun
1 : a breeding stock of animals
2a :
a family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same stockb :
a class or kind of people unified by shared interests, habits, or characteristics3a : an actually or potentially interbreeding group within a species also : a taxonomic category (such as a subspecies) representing such
b : BREED
c :
a category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits...just saying.