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Bibi is trying to walk back his racist comments

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 1:19 pm
by planosteve
In a meeting with representatives of minority communities in Israel on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized for the remarks that he made on Election Day about Arab Israeli voters.

"I know that the things I said a few days ago hurt some citizens in Israel, the Arab Israeli citizens," Netanyahu said.

"This was not my intention and I am sorry," he said.

Netanyahu's Election Day remarks have garnered extensive criticism.

“The Right-wing government is in danger. Arab voters are going en masse to the polls. Left-wing NGOs are bringing them on buses,” the prime minister said last week.

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Netanyahu-apologizes-to-Arab-Israelis-for-Election-Day-remarks-394834

Re: Bibi is trying to walk back his racist comments

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 1:33 pm
by Red Oak
Was it true ?

Re: Bibi is trying to walk back his racist comments

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 1:42 pm
by ralph
the one or 2 links I posted said that foreign NGO and v15 were bussing arabs to the polls , Bibi did good , everyone everywhere is always crying Racism which should fall on deaf ears !!

Re: Bibi is trying to walk back his racist comments

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 3:43 pm
by ralph
and another link , just a little more news about V15 and American taxpayer money 'interference' in Israeli elections as mrobama tried to oust Bibi Netanyahu !! --- http://thehill.com/policy/international ... n-reported ---

Re: Bibi is trying to walk back his racist comments

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 5:18 pm
by BillB
Where is the racism in his comments?
Which race is he denigrating?
Arab is not a race.

Re: Bibi is trying to walk back his racist comments

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 5:33 pm
by ralph
that's a very good point , I missed it , I think that you are correct Bill !! Sounds like its a generic race , something to yell . I think that arabs and the indigenous jews are all of the same race , both are semites I think .

Re: Bibi is trying to walk back his racist comments

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 5:53 pm
by planosteve
Red Oak said they were a racial group. I just figured he knew.

OK, let me walk it back.
"Bibi is trying to walk back his ethnicly insensitive comments"
Will that work?

Re: Bibi is trying to walk back his racist comments

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 6:12 pm
by ralph
Bibi might be apologizing but his encouraging his supporters to get out and vote was good . Heck , Bibi recognized the threat that a group of [possible] enemies of his in the midst of Israeli voters was being mobilized by mrobama and 'v15' to upset Bibi and the Israeli elections !! Aww , makes sense to me except for the apology !!

Re: Bibi is trying to walk back his racist comments

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 6:16 pm
by ralph
as far as , will that work , well , the election is over and Bibi won !!

Re: Bibi is trying to walk back his racist comments

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 6:29 pm
by BillB
ralph wrote:that's a very good point , I missed it , I think that you are correct Bill !! Sounds like its a generic race , something to yell . I think that arabs and the indigenous jews are all of the same race , both are semites I think .


The races are:
Caucasoid - white
Negroid - black
Mongoloid - Asian

Some anthropologists consider Australian aborigines a separate race.

Re: Bibi is trying to walk back his racist comments

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 6:32 pm
by ralph
yep , I remember , taught that in school , 7 or 8th grade I think .

Re: Bibi is trying to walk back his racist comments

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 9:05 pm
by Red Oak
planosteve wrote:Red Oak said they were a racial group. I just figured he knew.

OK, let me walk it back.
"Bibi is trying to walk back his ethnicly insensitive comments"
Will that work?


Were did I say that ?

And again what Bibs said, was it true ?

Re: Bibi is trying to walk back his racist comments

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 9:31 pm
by planosteve
Red Oak wrote:
planosteve wrote:Red Oak said they were a racial group. I just figured he knew.

OK, let me walk it back.
"Bibi is trying to walk back his ethnicly insensitive comments"
Will that work?


Were did I say that ?

And again what Bibs said, was it true ?
.
I don't remember where you said it.
Do you mean was it true that they were busing in Arabs? I don't know. But, Bibi was obviously using a scare tactic to whip up his vote.

Re: Bibi is trying to walk back his racist comments

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:14 pm
by Red Oak
Well if you remember when I said it, please point it out for me.

Re: Bibi is trying to walk back his racist comments

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 8:57 am
by GFB
Latino/Hispanic is now considered a race as well.

Re: Bibi is trying to walk back his racist comments

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 9:01 am
by GFB
And I was always taught that Injuns were their own race also.

Re: Bibi is trying to walk back his racist comments

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 9:24 am
by planosteve
Race is not a scientific concept. It has no exact definition. It's just a way of looking at people.

Re: Bibi is trying to walk back his racist comments

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 11:57 am
by jellowrestling
GFB wrote:Latino/Hispanic is now considered a race as well.

Actually, that is now classified as an "ethnicity". That's where the "White Hispanic" nonsense comes from.

Re: Bibi is trying to walk back his racist comments

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 3:38 pm
by BillB
planosteve wrote:Race is not a scientific concept. It has no exact definition. It's just a way of looking at people.


If race does not exist, how can racism exist?
How could Netanyahu's comments be considered racist, as you claimed?

Re: Bibi is trying to walk back his racist comments

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 4:05 pm
by planosteve
BillB wrote:
planosteve wrote:Race is not a scientific concept. It has no exact definition. It's just a way of looking at people.


If race does not exist, how can racism exist?
How could Netanyahu's comments be considered racist, as you claimed?

What is the one or more things that all members of a particular "race" have in common and that all other people lack?