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Originally Posted by Bold Brooklynite
I came to this thread a bit late ... but ...
... let me just tell you that the poster who called you a racist is himself an Arab who sees everything through a race-oriented prism.
If you said "the sky is blue" ... he'd call you anti-Arab because it was nighttime over Arab countries.
Everyone on this forum knows you as the honorable gentleman that you are ... please don't allow one race-crazed poster to get under your skin.
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BB,
Stud is also a man of honor. Hes no coward, and calls a spade a spade as he sees it. I don't think its proper FOR EITHER RACE(Jew or Arab) to get into a politically charged debate and dangle bait, then when its taken cry racism.
One could be EQUALLY pissed off when a Jew busts on a born again Christian. One could get very pissed and say why don't you offer a disclaimer before you post that view, that you are a Jew, just to be responsible and all. Or one could read that and take a pass and bite his tongue.
I don't see Stud as an arab, I see him as a guy. I also don't see him preaching that Arabs should be taking down buildings with innocent people in them. I've never met Stud, but I'm quite sure I'd want him in a foxhole with me.
As neither a Jew nor Arab, I can speak without prejudice. Since grade school my life has been filled with closest friends who were Jewish, and I count an Arab among my closest friends(I preach about blowing up every last one of them who would hurt us, not all of them).
If people are going to engage in debates in which race or religion is being thinly veiled or used as bait to dangle to incite the other one, then noone should be surprised or hurt when the other party takes the bait, and runs with it. Neither party is right in that type of case. But if you don't wanna get run over, don't walk in the middle of the road.