[Hank Kerchief]

First of seven articles to be published.

[Hank Kerchief]

PHILOSOPHY PING

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Hank

[stockpirate]

I was talking to two men in the hot tub at the spa I go to, and they both were liberals, and both were Anti-Semitic to the core.

Both saw no reason we should be supporting Isreal, voted for Clinton and and John Kerry.

[Thombo2]

Great article.Especially disturbing is the anti-Israel crowd here in America.What i find really perplexing is that many of the anti-Israel crowd are secular Jews like Noam Chomsky.Where is the outrage?Why aren't these dolts drummed out of academia?How can Jimmy Carter publish a book based on lies and disinformation and still be taken seriously?

[tpaine]

"-- The only people in this world who are neither autoracists or exoracists are independent individualists, and there are very few of those. --"


What Is an Individualist
Address:http://theautonomist.com/aaphp/permanent/phil_gen/whatisindividual.php

"-- The individualist is totally confident in his own ability to make his own living, to make right choices, and to bear the responsibility for those choices; he is not dependent on anyone else, in any way. He neither desires or will accept the unearned or undeserved, he does not accept anyone's unasked, "help," and does not need it, and does not offer it to others.

He does not seek or require anyone else's agreement or approval before acting (and resents any kind of restriction on his life that forces him to get anyone else's approval or consent to do anything).

The individualist needs no one to "motivate" him, he is self-motivated; it is his life and his love of it that are his motivation. He neither follows or leads others, though others may choose to follow him, all his actions are his own and for himself; all other relationships are secondary. --"

[rmlew]

This is anti-nationalist and ahistorical tripe.
The simple fact is that "autoracism" is not racism but a recognition of similaraty among ones people. This is the basis of culture and civilization.
Whether you beleive that we evolved in clans (sociobiology) or God created tribes, the fact is that the state of nature is not a single man or a couple but a group.

[Just another Joe]

So let me get this straight, if I identify myself as a member of, "a nationality, race, culture, class, or religion (an organized form, not its theology)" simply because I believe that group is better, I'm an autoracist.
Then any professed Christian is automatically an autoracist.

Considering that the term racist comes from the root word, "race", you owuld think that racism would naturally have something to do with a persons race, not the nationality (we have many nationalities in the USA), culture (although race many times has a decided bearing on race since people of the same race tend to try to huddle together), class (People of all races can be accepted into the same class, not caste), or religon (Religons will accept people of all races).

anti-semitism is not necessarily hatred of Jews.
A "semite" is defined by the dictionary as,
1. a member of any of various ancient and modern peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs.
2. a Jew.
3. a member of any of the peoples descended from Shem, the eldest son of Noah.

So a jewish anti-semite could be harboring a hatred of arabic people, not jewish people.

[Lurker]

I look forward to reading the rest of these Hank.

Thanks for posting them.

L