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View Poll Results: Should the moron be fired?
Yes 109 42.91%
Yes - deport her too 54 21.26%
No 65 25.59%
Educate her instead 26 10.24%
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Old 02-03-2022, 08:33 PM
 
Location: Brackenwood
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This about sums it up:

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Old 02-03-2022, 09:16 PM
 
Location: West Palm Beach, FL
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Oh yes it does.



Oh yes it does.



Who cares.

What would be cool, since you seem to be in the middle, but only calling out people like me, is to call those out that you agree with (anti-trump) since it seems you're trying to be the referee.
Dude has incurable TDS. Best to ignore him.
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Old 02-03-2022, 09:30 PM
 
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You're staunch leftist/liberal/trump hater, yes?
Huh? No, no and unlike you, I don’t hate anyone.

And what does Trump have to do with this discussion?

Weird.
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Old 02-03-2022, 09:31 PM
 
Location: near bears but at least no snakes
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I am confused by the Whoopie apology for saying that Jewish people are not a race. I'm guilty of that my entire life. I've always said that Jewish people practice Judaism, which is a religion. Jewish people who stop practicing Judaism are no longer Jewish. They do not suddenly become a different race.

Hitler said that Jewish is an "inferior race," but why would anyone today to rely on Hitler's ideas? If we're going to take Hitler's word for it, then western religions of Judaism, Islam and Christianity are different races.

Whoopi's explanation for agreeing that Jewish is a race:
"As Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League shared, "The Holocaust was about the Nazi's systematic annihilation of the Jewish people -- who they deemed to be an inferior race." I stand corrected."
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/31/enter...cec/index.html
I am confused too. I always was taught that Judaism was a religion. I was taught that there were three races--to make it simple: black, white, Asian. If a Jewish person stops being Jewish, they are still of the white race if they were white to begin with.

Just because Hitler referred to them as a race doesn't mean they were a race. He killed a lot of people and that included Polish people who were also usually white. He was trying to create more people with blonde hair and blue eyes. He was crazy too. But if people have changed our language so that words mean something else now, then that could be why she didn't say the "politically correct" thing.

This topic is about a lot of nothing as far as I am concerned. Hitler was anti-semitic but he was anti other things too, anti intellectual, anti dark hair or skin, anti, anti, anti. This whole thing is a tempest in a teapot.
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Old 02-03-2022, 09:37 PM
 
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Disliking Trump doesn't make anyone a leftist, nor a liberal.

It doesn't definitively make anyone anything other than someone who dislikes Trump.

Trump isn't even conservative.
That poster’s behavior is strange.

We are in a discussion about Whoopi’s statement and he comes out of left-field with irrelevant questions…blabbing about Trump.
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Old 02-03-2022, 10:15 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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I am confused too. I always was taught that Judaism was a religion. I was taught that there were three races--to make it simple: black, white, Asian. If a Jewish person stops being Jewish, they are still of the white race if they were white to begin with.

Just because Hitler referred to them as a race doesn't mean they were a race. He killed a lot of people and that included Polish people who were also usually white. He was trying to create more people with blonde hair and blue eyes. He was crazy too. But if people have changed our language so that words mean something else now, then that could be why she didn't say the "politically correct" thing.

This topic is about a lot of nothing as far as I am concerned. Hitler was anti-semitic but he was anti other things too, anti intellectual, anti dark hair or skin, anti, anti, anti. This whole thing is a tempest in a teapot.
There you go knowing how to engage in a discussion and share a point of view. How refreshing!

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Old 02-03-2022, 10:30 PM
 
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the following is standard:
The world population can be divided into 4 major races, namely white/Caucasian, Mongoloid/Asian, Negroid/Black, and Australoid. This is based on a racial classification made by Carleton S. Coon in 1962. There is no universally accepted classification for “race”, however, and its use has been under fire over the last few decades

There are many "faiths" though that are targeted in heinous acts of violence to illicit further distain. Should the oppressed fight back they are labeled.

Even under the guise of "Christianity" there is known acts of violence towards other "faiths" ( note by editor: NOT by RACE) . The Spanish Inquisition being one of them.

Ignorance is the foundation.

I think most who do tend to bring controversy are over generalizing or misunderstanding the usage in its overall context. Whoopi may have fell into that category in her "opinion" piece. Is it the public viewers place though to decide the employment status or discontinuous of a contract? Nope. We are not dictators of others .
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Old 02-03-2022, 10:36 PM
 
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Really though, is it that confusing? "I'm just not sure if Hitler was a racist or not. Let me scratch my head on that one for a while."

Do you think Whoopi waved off the tiki-torch-wielding idiots at Charlottesville chanting "Jews will not replace us" as an internal squabble among white people that didn't implicate her race in any way, or just a bunch of yahoos celebrating man's inhumanity to man?
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Old 02-03-2022, 10:58 PM
 
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She shouldn't be fired. Many equate race as being black and white. So in her mind..... whites who felt superior to other whites wasn't about race. It was about inhumanity to men.
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Old 02-03-2022, 11:07 PM
 
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Well they fired Roseanne Barr for a tweet and she apologized and no cigars. Whoopi got 2 weeks vacation. Same company ABC/Disney.
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