Israel and Gaza

[Marco]

Interesting to re-read the thread.

Some of our long-standing and lapsed members of the forum as well. I miss CL. Hope he's doing well.

Not sure it was a good idea to dig this up, as it contains a very nasty religious slur

Israel despite its religion is a civilised country and the majority of people rational.

[Witton Park]

Maybe he would say similar about other states where a faith plays a greater role than might be deemed healthy.

I didn't read as much in to it as you are Marco.

[Marco]

It's a very nasty, and ignorant, comment. At the very best it's religious bigotry, and many people would call it something far worse.

[molehill]

I agree with WP on that, I actually read the comment 3 times to see what you were getting at. If it was written as a nasty bigoted comment it wasn’t a very good one.
Or perhaps I’m just slow on the uptake.

[anthonykay]

Not sure it was a good idea to dig this up, as it contains a very nasty religious slur

Marco, I think you joined the Forum after CL had stopped posting, so you may not be aware that nasty slurs were a specialty of his; although he always managed to phrase them quite elegantly, without the sort of bluster that has got certain people banned from the Forum in recent years. I remember one occasion when I was fairly new to the Forum, when I assumed that one of CL's posts was a parody of extreme right-wing views, and was then corrected by another forumite who told me that what he had written was actually what he believed.

[Graham Breeze]

Marco, I think you joined the Forum after CL had stopped posting, so you may not be aware that nasty slurs were a specialty of his; although he always managed to phrase them quite elegantly, without the sort of bluster that has got certain people banned from the Forum in recent years. I remember one occasion when I was fairly new to the Forum, when I assumed that one of CL's posts was a parody of extreme right-wing views, and was then corrected by another forumite who told me that what he had written was actually what he believed.

I met CL and I'd be happy to bump into him again.

Some people just like to provoke a response and I think CL was one of them.

[Witton Park]

From what I recall, CL was not right wing. He was an anarchist. So his views were extreme, but that is only because were are conditioned to accept what we have and not veer to far out of the mainstream for fear of being labelled extreme.

To give you an example, we have a system that can run up debt in to the Trillions in our name with apparently no limit - we've blown Corbyn's magic money tree out of the park.
It can extract money under threat of prosecution directly from our pay packets/income supposedly to provide services for us, but has no minimum legal standard and can say "no", "not yet" or "never" when attempting to access those services or make some type of choice around them.

I believe he wanted to break that up - I have sympathy for his position.

[Travs]

He did try and advocate using leg machines in the gym though.

Absolutely unforgiveable!

[Marco]

I agree with WP on that, I actually read the comment 3 times to see what you were getting at. If it was written as a nasty bigoted comment it wasn’t a very good one.
Or perhaps I’m just slow on the uptake.

Might be the latter, I'm afraid, with no disrespect intended. If I shorten it, and use some highlighting, you will hopefully see it for the deliberate religious slur it is

Israel despite its religion is a civilised country ..

[Mossdog]

He did try and advocate using leg machines in the gym though.

Absolutely unforgiveable!

Too true. And Mike T recently referred to some research paper were they were effectively described as borderline Satanic. I'v crossed myself after writing Satanic and referring to those machines in the same sentence. Damn it! I've now got to cross again... ARrrgh