Comments on: Graham’s Law http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/03/10/grahams-law/ crass, boorish and more a bruiser than blogger Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:01:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Quaequam Blog! » Blog Archive » Ham: Are You High? http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/03/10/grahams-law/#comment-173181 Quaequam Blog! » Blog Archive » Ham: Are You High? Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:04:36 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/03/10/grahams-law/#comment-173181 [...] me mocking the Ham and High a couple of years ago for condemning the Labour party’s “flying pigs” advert on the grounds of anti-semitism. Words therefore fail to learn that the same paper [...] [...] me mocking the Ham and High a couple of years ago for condemning the Labour party’s “flying pigs” advert on the grounds of anti-semitism. Words therefore fail to learn that the same paper [...]

]]> By: Quaequam Blog! » Blog Archive » Can religion make animals disappear? http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/03/10/grahams-law/#comment-36766 Quaequam Blog! » Blog Archive » Can religion make animals disappear? Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:09:42 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/03/10/grahams-law/#comment-36766 [...] because they had published an alphabet wall chart with “p” for “pig” on it. Last week I mentioned the ludicrousness of the Ham and High of all newspapers claiming that Labour was [...] [...] because they had published an alphabet wall chart with “p” for “pig” on it. Last week I mentioned the ludicrousness of the Ham and High of all newspapers claiming that Labour was [...]

]]> By: Bernard http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/03/10/grahams-law/#comment-36041 Bernard Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:30:38 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/03/10/grahams-law/#comment-36041 Another comment, on a slightly different topic: We also need to consider how the term 'Muslim' is used to describe people in Britain, in some of the media it is all but a term of denigration in itself. Any response to antisemitism (Judeophobia is a more useful term, I think) needs to go hand in hand with a response to Islamophobia, the major problem of bigotry on religious grounds in Britain. Another comment, on a slightly different topic:

We also need to consider how the term ‘Muslim’ is used to describe people in Britain, in some of the media it is all but a term of denigration in itself. Any response to antisemitism (Judeophobia is a more useful term, I think) needs to go hand in hand with a response to Islamophobia, the major problem of bigotry on religious grounds in Britain.

]]> By: Bernard http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/03/10/grahams-law/#comment-36040 Bernard Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:26:35 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/03/10/grahams-law/#comment-36040 Sensible stuff, James. The cheap use of the charge of antisemitism in this case (and elsewhere) is tremendously frustrating to those of us, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, who have any sensible response to the real evil of antisemitism. (As for the accusation that only Jews and not Christian businessmen are described with reference to their religion, one has only to do a search of the Guardian website to see this is rubbish.) Sensible stuff, James. The cheap use of the charge of antisemitism in this case (and elsewhere) is tremendously frustrating to those of us, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, who have any sensible response to the real evil of antisemitism.

(As for the accusation that only Jews and not Christian businessmen are described with reference to their religion, one has only to do a search of the Guardian website to see this is rubbish.)

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