No, they are irrelevant. Regardless of my views on the images at hand (and no, I don't think they should be deleted altogether), nobody cares if you think Zionism = racism and it has nothing to do with whether we should or shouldn't keep these images.
On Dec 6, 2007 2:32 PM, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/12/2007, Rama Rama ramaneko@gmail.com wrote:
Oldak, this is the mailing list of Commons. This is not a political
mailing
list. Beside the fact that you views of Zionism are simplistic and
wrong, it
is not the emotions of Zionists that we want to keep out of here, but
the
emotions of *all* politically-driven people. Be they tenants of the
Israeli
right-wing and far-right-wing, or their opponents.
I suggested we avoid emotive terms such as "anti-Semite" which would just confuse this discussion. The term is lightly thrown around in some discussions - I don't see how anything I said was over-simplistic or wrong.
Zionism is racist (any hope or ideology based around a racial state is racist) and confusing the distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism is a common tactic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism_and_racism_allegations). I only bring up these points, because they are relevant to the discussion.
-- Oldak Quill (oldakquill@gmail.com)
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