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by busterarm 1849 days ago
That was one of the most heinous, blatantly bigoted screeds I'd read in quite a long time. There isn't anything defensible about it.
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All I'm saying is that the charge of "antisemitism" is too heavy and the author's post didn't sound that way to me, but since I'm not Jewish, I'm not going to press this point this further at the risk of sounding too insensitive or privileged.

If you'd like a Jewish perspective on this, here's a comment made by someone who claims to be Jewish that basically echoes my sentiments -- that the author of that blog post was naive and got carried away in his rhetoric, instead of being an actual antisemite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27385448

It's definitely anti-semitic, but I regularly will see worse stuff even on here.
In other comments in this thread, even.
Does mild criticism shake you to your core, or something?
"mild criticism" mixed in with generalizing Jewish people, regardless of country, in the last paragraph?

> If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself. Self defense is undoubtedly an instinct, but I would be afraid of my increasing insensitivity to the suffering others.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210601160519/https://www.kamau...

I'm not Jewish first of all, but to categorize the character of an entire group of people based on their birth/religion is the definition of bigotry.
Blatant stereotyping of a people is not mild criticism.