Unfortunate trend: Use of ‘Anti-Semitism’
Since 9/11, there’s been a theme in the U.S. that if you are critical of U.S. policies, you are basically a terrorist. This, of course, has dimished significantly as those people opposed to things like the Iraq war have been shown to have been correct in their predictions.
But in a similar vein, it seems that if you oppose Israel’s policies you must then be an anti-semite.
Now, as a jew (and a rational person), I find that pathetic.
Most people in the U.S. disapprove of the policies in place in China (many of them). Does that mean most people in the U.S. hate the Chinese?
I think that England is being too soft on the issue of Sharia law.
Does that mean I’m anti-anglo?
I think that Communism doesn’t work. Do I then hate all communists?
Obviously, the situation is extreme.
Tossing around extreme words does not help.
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