Watching John Kerry give Colin Powell's speech I am disgusted

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162. What, is this sort of claim suddenly a problem?

Come to I/P. We have a cottage industry of posters claiming that no dead Arab is ever actually dead, or that if they are it's because their parents murdered them. 'Cause you know, Arabs are a child sacrificing death cult - a claim that gets you rightly banned when you say it about Jews, but never when you say it about Arabs.

Point is, DU - and very clearly its admins - have been nothing but tolerant and accepting of this exact claim for years. Is it suddenly a problem now? Is it suddenly offensive now? Why suddenly take umbrage at such a claim, when for so long it's been happily accepted in this community, all the way up to the very top? It's I suspect only because people are using these dead children to justify killing even more Arabs.

Of course those children are dead, and thousands more like them besides. And it's fucking grotesque that anyone would come up with a claim like "oh, they're acting! They're drugged! They did it to themselves!" But... that's the sort of claim towards Arabs that I've come to expect on DU. Thanks for arguing against it, honestly... but it'd be nice if it weren't just for this "special occasion."