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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-03-06 01:31 PM
Response to Reply #70
87. I don't see the need to label it one way or the other, if there is an
argument over whether a country's policys and strategies are valid.
I find it is used indiscriminately as a method to shut down an argument that makes someone uncomfortable.
I would expect NOT to be labeled antisemitic if I object to the current incursion into lebanon. There is no reason if I object to military actions, period, that I have to suffer being labeled something hateful.
If people cannot separate valid criticism of strategy and tactics of a country from racism, then I find the labels meaningless at that point and then when you NEED to point out antisemistism, it has watered down the accusation to the point of impotence.

IMHO
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