Terrorism is the criminal acts of the oppressed. War crimes are the criminal acts of the oppressors. Usually the body count resulting from war crimes outnumber the body count resulting from terrorism. The corpses making up the body count on both sides are victims. Oppressors at one time may become oppressors at another time and vice versa. To eliminate both criminal acts get rid of the inequities of power. Those in power will rarely give up power. It has happened in South Africa with Mandela and de Clerk so it can happen.

Foxy wrote: "Whoopi Goldberg's remarks are surprising to say the least."

Actually they're not. In terms of the beliefs of people like 'Goldberg' (its her stage name) what she says is perfectly understandable and makes perfect sense.

Critical Race Theory (CRT) has taught these people that racism is something that only whites can do to BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of Colour). BIPOC people can never be racists according to CRT.

Now sometimes Arabs can be considered to be BIPOC. But Jews never can, even though they are both Semitic.

Therefore, according to the tenets of CRT, when white Nazis killed white Jews, it simply couldn't be racist. Neither were BIPOC...therefore no racism. And that's what Goldberg said. Now it might be that the people who generally fall for all the CRT crap, were shocked at the results of their 'logic' and it might be that they are shocked that she said the quiet bit out loud, but that doesn't mean that her think was wrong - at least not wrong in the jaundiced world of new-racism.

In fact, what she said makes perfect sense in that world. She's now trying to take those words back as quickly as she can. Not because they are wrong but because it might cost her her phoney-baloney job.

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david f wrote: "Terrorism is the criminal acts of the oppressed. "

Actually, terrorism is the criminal acts of those who claim to be oppressed.

There you go....fixed it for you

I think Whoopi summed up the left's point on Jews.

"The increasingly influential “woke” worldview has taken to dividing the world between beneficiaries of white privilege and people of colour. Jews, predictably, are generally viewed as white in this schema. As a result, much of the left now sees Jews as complicit in a discriminatory system that oppresses non-whites."

So essentially the bleeding heart lefties on this site see this as a white vs black struggle and the blacks are always entirely innocent.

The left is a broad tent containing people with many different points of view. The right is a broad tent containing people with many different points of view. Unfortunately, many prejudiced people try to fit them into tiny boxes. If more on each side could open their respective minds they might see that they have many things in common in addition to their differences. Some on each side are able to do that. Others are not. Some are able to see that not every difference can be put in right and left boxes, and even that right and left are not always the most significant difference.

Hi David,

I'm not a fan of the terms Left and Right, blame the French for that one. I think of politics like the Solar System with the Sun in the center, but not a place to dwell permentnenly. Politics varying from the extremely moderate Mercury to the extremely radical politics of Neptune. The vast majority of us are happy with the political environment of Earth, somewhat moderate but far enough out to seek change when its acceptable. Sometimes we are on the left of center, sometimes right, but never too far from the center. It don't take much to shift the majority from the moderate to the extreme, and how often have we seen that.

I ask, a party like One Nation, call it moderately extreme, given power how extreme could it become. The answer is a pineapple, but one can only wonder.

The people who can make changes are not inside david f's tent at all.