h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I haven't been called 'lady' in a while.

She was not correct, Vicky.

I'm highly intelligent, and I frequently swear.

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No. You call it 'disgusting anti-Semitism, I call it a theory.

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He has?
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Not that I've read - and he's often published here in our local paper.
<< Cohn - I don't know about.>>

Same.

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Filth? Give me a break! I am not anti-semitic, I am anti-Zionist, and for good reason.

Anti-Christian and anti-Muslim views are okay, but (supposed) anti-Semitism is filth? That's the rankest foulest hypocrisy. Shame on you!

Oh for christ sakes calm down, Vicky.

Oh Effers, why should I? I am supposed to let your foul insult about my mother pass. Tell me why?

If I was to sneer at your family, there'd be hell to pay, and that'd be a double standard you'd refuse to recognise.

I am not happy with you - not that you care.

Vicky,

You made a connection regarding the ethnicity, not religious beliefs, of three people at least one of whom and probably all three are Atheists. You attributed their views to their ethnicity.

That is plain, simple, old-fashioned anti-semitism.

In what way is it not?

In what way is it not putrid?

On what grounds would the mods overturn a Yikes?

Can you not at least admit a stupid error?

Vicky you are more than welcome to sneer at my mother. She was endlessly critical and undermining of me. From what you've told me, not dissimilar to yours.

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Whoop-de-freaking do. If you're so intelligent, find a better way to express yourself than the language of a plumber or a rugby-playing knuckle dragger.

(Perfect example. The little girl next door lost her temper with her brother. Instead of calling him a ****** **** she called him a knuckle-dragger. Their quarrel came in through our open windows on Sunday, abnd I nearly wet myself laughing at her cleverness.)

Further, note for future reference - if I call someone 'lady', it's the opposite of a compliment.

It's almost the same as calling her a ******

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A misjudged remark on someone's mother surely pales into insignificance besides blatant anti-semitism?

My stupid error lay solely in using the word 'ethnicity'... it just seemed a weird stretch to use the word religion, when referring to Hitchens.

Israel was founded not on religion, but ethnicity. Its frequent making of wars and threats against neighbours is based on ethnicity not religion.

Israel abuses Palestinians on the basis of their ethnicity, not their religion, which includes both Christianity and Islam. Like it or not.

I think before we go off on a tangent here, I have a question. What made you think that they Zionists because of their last names, Vicky?

I don't think an Arab would necessarily agree with that statement, Ed

sorry- *are Zionists*

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Yes, but that wasn't all there was to mine, and I don't loathe her because of one part of her character. She did what she could, as I am sure your does. I am not going to slag anyone off, welcome or not.

Oh, and I call a lady a lady even if she isn't, because I'm a gentleman.

>>I think before we go off on a tangent here, I have a question. What made you think that they Zionists because of their last names, Vicky?

Indeed. Vicky's implication was, surely, that their views on the Iraq war are bound to be tainted by their Jewish background.

Certainly stinks of anti-semitism from where I'm sitting.

Oh grow up, Edward!

Why do Jews and Buddhists get a pass, from atheist fundamentalists and yet no other religion does?

I've asked that before, but no one has ever answered. Is it trendy political correctness, or fear?

Only Hoo, oddly, was even-handed in his hatred.

So, grow up.

I haven't read the bloody book and I have no intention of bothering with it as I'm quite sure it would be simply reciting conclusions I have arrived at independently. I have, however, read 'God is not Great' and pretty much all of Dennett's books, and, more importantly I think, pretty much all of Hofstadter's books.

Now, as an expression of opinion, please see the subject line.

Sorry, caesar.