> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:06 PM, SA<s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Chomsky is a racist now? He may be wrong about BDS, but that's a bit much.
> If a member of an ethnically privileged group publicly opposing the broad,
> consensual goals of an ethnically oppressed group, and the strategy they
> have chosen to reach them, is not racism, then racism has become a word
> without meaning and should be consigned to the dustbin of history. Perhaps
> some clever person will make the case for that; but if it has yet been made,
> here or elsewhere, I haven't seen it.
Sorry, I think it's fine to disagree with the "goals of an ethnically oppressed group" if that's what's called for. If you want to call that racism, go ahead. But it seems totally adolescent to me.
SA