david miller

For the life of me I cannot understand how someone can hate another just
because they happen to be a member of another religion or ethnic group.

This sort of thinking is primitive barbarism.

Jews are not just victims either, there are Jews who hate non-Jews without
just cause also.

Children should not be blamed for the sins of their fathers or members of
their tribe.

I accept one can hate an ideology. I for example hold most religions,
communism, fascism with contempt. But I don't hold all followers with that
same contempt. I often feel they are also victims.

jtem

I've found that they often get mad when you try to feel them.

l alpert

It isn't truly a "hate". Many believe that Jews should stay amongst their
own kind, and not stray from the fold. It can be interpeted as hate, but I
would call it seperatist.
Malcom X had similar ideas. He was labled a racist, but in fact had many
good ideas that could aide the blacks in America.


Human trait. It seems everyone needs someone to blame.

I agree that one can or should be against the ideology. Hate an ideology is
too strong for me, as to hate it, you would need to fully understand the
concepts. I will disagree to degrees, but not hate. Unless, of course, we
are talking about the egghead Nazis and kooks that hang around this group.

flotsam

i would like to declare open season on all religious and ethnic groups
yes i would

shiftbrain

Pretty good! Me, too.

Hey, oh shining beacons of humankind:

I believe that people are afraid of what they don't understand.
Without knowing it, when faced with a person of a different culture, a
mental "danger" flag goes up. This flag means different things to
different people, in some it invokes the fight/flight instinct, in
some it stimulates curiosity.

No one culture has all the correct answers or a lock on morality.

No one culture is all wrong or a lock on evil.

Its easier to just wish the "others" didn't exist, or lived somewhere
else.

But the curious (smart people) learn about the differences, look for
and find the good in other people.

Bias (discrimination based on race, creed, color, age etc) is just
wrong, it is based on fear and ignorance.

To borrow from Dr Martin Luther King, we must learn to judge each
other by what we do, not what we look like or where we or our
ancestors came from. That got sloppy grammar, I needed to include
"each other" but I think it carries my point, anyway. It'll filter out
the rebuttals based on bullshit instead of the subject matter.

Any assumption that Jews are bad, or that Atheists are bad, or
democrats, tall people, short people, fat people, old people, male
people, thin people, republicans etc are bad just because that's what
they are, is made by someone practicing defective thought processes.
They are stuck in their own rut and rely on others to back them up to
form hate groups (just like grade school kids), because they elect not
to see the others. They are in a hole and dig more and more in an
effort to free themselves. Guess what, folks? It doesn't work.

And, ladies and gentlemen, I didn't get a chance to throw around my
favorite word in the above diatribe, so I'll have to just state it
here.

Here it is, ready? "Tolerance"

1,$d
shiftbrain
I hope someone doesn't steal the "f" keytop from my keyboard.

reniggade

Jews inspire this sort of hatred by their behaviour. Always have
done.

tilly

Like the way many Aussies feel about Aborigines?

Tilly
climbaboard@hotmail.com

oleka2000

Hate is not a big deal here.War and terrorism, based on that hate is a
problem.For example there is no such thing as palestine.The whole
conflict was created to justify killing and removing infidels because ......Allah said so.

Not really.Its a nature of a business.More customers and less
competition or opposition is what makes the business stay in
business.Business of selling idea of diety so profitable, that they
HAVE to kill to protect it.


Jews by religion or jews by nationality.There are secular
jews,christian lews, orthodox, and citizens of Israel.


Religion is a belief (or so they say).You cannot hold a belief responsible.


There is no such thing as communism.Just a made up word to justify
dictatorship and totalitarian regime.

fascism

How is fascism any different from, lets say, Islam?

with contempt. But I don't hold all followers with that


No, idiot.They are customers and loyal soldiers for a business of
religion.
Every suicide bomber is a loyal soldier for a business of religion,
because he protects religious agenda.

thomas p.

Many feel that way, and some hate. Why should they be immune from
the disease the rest of mankind suffers from?

He was, at least in the beginning, a racist. Believing that whites
are, by nature, evil cannot be described as anything but racism. His
racism was no more irrational (and certainly more understandable) than
the racism of whites, but it was still racism. Apparently, however,
he rejected racism in the end.

Thomas P.

david miller

Only the Aussies who know them..