Western Values: Rescuing DOG "refugees" in Turkey but not humans

This.

I used to know a Lebanese kid when I was in Saudi Arabia and he stopped coming to school for quite a long time after visiting Lebanon and, when he came back, his father had to carry him on his shoulders for months because he couldn't walk. He'd told us that his mother had been killed by a direct hit from a rocket, which seemed pretty odd to me.

I didn't particularly like him and I was very sheltered from all the politics then, so I didn't make too much of this at the time but it was only later when I came back to the UK and started to get educated about these things that I made the link with the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon and realised that it roughly coincided with his absence from school. It did make me appreciate, after a period of being very pro-Israel, that there are legitimate personal reasons why some people hate Israel, quite apart from anti-Semitism.

I understand. My apologies for the confusion.


Cato is inclined to view things in a certain way (/through a certain lens), and is rather arrogant in his beliefs, but he's not an idiot - I'm sure he has come to realise that your posts are not indicative of racism and are the perfectly reasonable consequence of your experiences.

Oh shut up already with your racist garbage

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Yeah, Israel was definitely trying to help us when they bombed my home village,killing my relatives and friends.

Ofc, any criticism of Israel is antisemitic

Most countries have problems with letting their citizens hold the citizenship of even one other country. How have you managed to end up with four countries that are okay with this arrangement?

It's funny how people seek nuance when it isn't there but then expect the whole of the western side of the planet to have moral consistency. If I pointed out the hypocrisies of eastern dictatorships we would be here all day. When Middle Eastern countries start taking in the refugees on their dorrstop I will listen to your lecture about moral inconsistencies.

Europe has many failings but it has opened the borders to millions. How many have Kuwait let in? The UAE? Qatar? These are the so-called moderate states by the way. I am sure many of their population would like to take in a percentage of genuine refugees but it is the liberal democracies that are actually doing it.

he is saying your racism is derived from the inconsistency in how you view syria's occupation of lebanon and israel's occupation - implying that it is because one is arab and the other is jewish that you view them differently.

but as this inconsistency can be explained by israel being directly responsible for the deaths of your family members (and syria not) then his point is evidently moot.

Wanna rephrase that?

(Sorry for the late commentary -- I'm only just reading your spat with Cato.)

In other news, students may need to learn about Islamic civilisation, Mayan culture or Benin in West Africa but they need not study British kings and queens. WOW!

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/648075/Schools-teach-Islamic-history-ignore-British

People make their own decisions animals don't.

But yes this is a sign of superior western secular liberalism humanism.

But tell us what would you have done to them?

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My mother has never suffered misogyny

So other countries do not possess this superior secular liberalism complex? #whitesuperioritycomplex

That's because she was born in Germany

Perhaps you could name some of them for us

There so many kids like you on here who look down on other countries because they're not part of the west

So? Surely if Arabian culture is so oppressive

We are all equal

Says the half German Half Italian

But I'll not be lectured on morally by the likes of you.

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"
George Orwell, Animal Farm

Then why did you grandmother pack her bags and go looking for a new life in the west then if it was all so great?

Hahahahah I'm not half German. I'm half English half Italian remember my mother was the German

My grandmother wanted a change of scenery I guess.