Quote Originally Posted by Mossdog View Post
No one is saying you can't use the term racism. That's a clear non-sequitur. The point is to use the term sparingly and in the appropriate context or it loses its value.

If you can't appreciate the difference between Mosley's black shirts anti-semitism and how this is racism, and a document/manifesto that makes explicitly no reference to race, then I'm at a loss to explain further.

This may help, but if even that doesn't, I think we'll have to agree to disagree

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ario-balotelli
I'd give the example of "genocide" used to describe the Israeli approach to Gaza. A genocide so successful that the population growth is about 30% over the last decade.

Here's my main issue with the protests.

If those protesters had taken to the streets post October 7th calling for the release of the Hamas held hostages and a ceasefire, and held peaceful vigils for example, then they would have my sympathy and support.

One group attacked the other, butchered civilians, some were Thai agricultural workers. They took around 300 hostages, women and children.
So when people talk about International Law, Hamas trampled all over it.
They are rubbing our nose in the sand - challenging us and using our morals and ethics as a weakness.

The celebrations on hearing the news over there and over here, and then the anti-west sentiment sewn in to the raucous chants and inflammatory banners at all protests appears vile, nasty, evil.

The Police (the subject of this thread) have ample reasons to deal with this and make many more arrests than they have.