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'Munich' and moral equivalence : Comments
By Colin Andersen, published 2/2/2006Colin Andersen reviews Steven Speilberg's film 'Munich'.
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You emphatically proclaim that prejudging, labeling and stereotyping any group of people is utterly PC verboten. But then you prejudge, label and stereotype Nazi’s and Islamic extremists. But you can not see the contradiction, can you? Amaaazing.
Whether you despise any group of people because of their race or for their political, social or religious beliefs, it is still racism. Despising Nazis is racism. Despising moderate Nazis is racism. Despising liberal Nazis is racism. Despising Islamic fundamentalists is racism. Despising Islamic moderates is racism. Despising Islamic liberals is racism. Have you got it now?
Where do I stand?
In the late 19th century, sex and booze were the manifestations of evil according to the moral puritans of the day. But today’s moral puritans have focused upon racism as the 8th Deadly Sin. Oddly enough, these puritans are unable to comprehend that by denouncing some groups of people that do not conform to their concept of right and wrong, they are guilty of the very Cardinal sin that they stridently claim is a moral absolute.
Get it through your fuzzy head that in group/ out group aggression is as normal as sex. You can denounce it as inappropriate to a particular circumstance, but you can not denounce it as a moral absolute. Because sure as God made little green apples, you are going to display hostility to groups that you don’t approve of, just like everybody else does. As a matter of fact, you did it in your last three posts. You see, my dear Plantagenet, it is entirely normal behaviour