Parker Peters wrote:
On 12/27/06, Oldak Quill <oldakquill(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
To say that a comparison between Apartheid and
Israel is "very, very
valid criticism of the State of Israel" is not racist. It's accusing
Israel of being racist. Perhaps, if this claim doesn't have any
supporting evidence, you could call it nationalist. Nothing more.
But the problem is, the evidence all points the other way. Attempts to
compare Apartheid with Israel's situation have never been honest, but always
have been nothing more than racist propaganda.
What makes them dishonest? If the people who make that analogy really
believe it, that's all it takes to be honest. Propaganda involves much
more than discussing an idea in some electronic medium. It involves a
conscious effort to spread that idea in a multitude of fora.
If you're going to make a comparison with
Apartheid, you've got a better
comparison looking at Saudi Arabia, where multiple cities require
non-Muslims to drive on different roads than Muslims, and non-Muslims are
barred from multiple areas of many cities, and are subject to different laws
and different punishments for breaking the laws.
<citation needed>
The fact that this was brought up when it was is sad,
and the fact that I
see editors going on trying to find some method of justifying writings that
are mere propaganda being placed onto wikipedia, is horrifying to me.
One does not achieve NPOV by suppressing views with which one disagrees.
Ec