Maybe I am a bit old fashioned, but I like to use words accurately. I think it does a great disservice to the English language to simply throw about words, solely for the effect of creating an emotional response. One word that is used far too liberally these days is 'racism'. It has become fashionable to describe as racist anything negative that is projected against any ethnic group. I've noticed this on the forum too.
We are accused of being racist because we have grievances with Islam and often with the black community also. This by itself is not racism. Racism is when you hold that groups are stratified in worth solely by race. We don't do that here. A white racist will hate blacks regardless of how they behave (whether good or bad), solely because they are blacks. A Jew can be considered a racist if he hates all arabs because of their race and not because of what they do. We don't do that here either.
Racism is a quasi-scientific concept that has been disproven time and again since the mid 20th century. It is a preposturous, antiquated notion of the 19th century that has only led to evil. G-d has given all men of all races free will. A person's worth may be calculated by how he exercises his free will. Racism will say that a person's inferiority is caused by his blood and the blood of his ethnic group.
For those who have come to our forum and charged us with racism, I ask if you have ever heard anyone on this forum charge that a particular group is inferior (or superior for that matter) because of any predetermined ethnic qualities? I can say for sure that you have not. We may attack the practices or the culture that leads to certain practices among a particular ethnic group, but that is a different matter entirely. Noticing trends among particular groups of people and condemning those trends is not the same as saying that those trends are caused by some ethnic blood inferiority.
So to anyone who wishes to label and libel our group as racist, if you truly care about racism (which I suspect you don't) then know that you are not helping your anti-racist crusade by charging racism falsely. In fact, labelling a group as racist, when they are not actually racist, sets back the cause of eliminating racism.
I would like to see no racism anywhere. It certainly is not on this forum. A good start in eliminating racism is to first only label as racist that which is racist. And start using language properly. You won't impress me by using emotionally charged language for shock value. This is a trick of the Left and it works in scaring the weak minded (other Leftists), but it won't work on me. And to other members of the forum, who perhaps feel somewhat indignant at being labelled as racists, when you clearly are not, don't feel that you have to defend yourselves so vigorously against such slander.
