<<Trouble is you have a history of derogatory remarks. From your contempt of the Japanese during WWII to your depiction of 4000 dead hillbillies in Iraq to youir depiction of arabs as ragheads. >>
I don't apologize for my remarks about either the Japs or the dead hillbillies. Or if I do, that'll come at another time in another place. I do not deny that racism may be an element in my deliberate use of the term "Jap" and I don't hide behind an excuse of irony for either of those two references.
The remark about the ragheads is so obviously ironic in context and so obviously non-racist in context that I really cannot understand how anyone could miss the obvious intent. Assuming for the moment that you are correct that racism is behind both the "Japs" and the "dead hillbillies" references, both of whom (Japs and the U.S. military) I regularly excoriate in my posts, it's quite a stretch to conclude that there is a similar racist animus behind my use of "raghead" particularly when the group targeted by the alleged smear is one which (unlike the Japanese and the U.S. military) I have regularly stuck up for in most of my posts.
You might also want to ask yourself why I never claim that there is anything ironic in my remarks about Japs or dead hillbillies, yet would raise that claim in defence of my use of "raghead" in this thread.
Bottom line is that I didn't intend any racial disparagement by my ironic use of the term "raghead" in reference to the Iraqis, I believe it should be obvious to any intelligent reader of the post that the term was used ironically to depict the racism and ignorance of the U.S. military generally, and if anyone takes genuine offence at my use of the term "raghead" in this thread(as opposed to the fake indignation of both hnumpah and BT at something they know God-damn well is not racist) then I will immediately apologize to that person unconditionally.
<<What's ironic is that it is an anti-semitic remark from a Semite.>>
If the remark were truly racist, it would be as offensive coming from a Semite as from an Eskimo. My racial origins have absolutely nothing to do with the offensiveness of the remark, the only REAL antisemitism here being your raising them in the first place. There would be absolutely nothing "ironic" about the remarks, which are anti-Arab rather than antisemitic, coming from a Jew if they were racist. Quite a lot of the anti-Arab hate propaganda today, unfortunately, comes directly or indirectly from Jewish sources and there is nothing ironic about any of it.
Antisemitism as you probably should know does not denote a general hostility against all Semites, be they Jews or Arabs. Antisemitism describes a peculiar type of European agitation that began in the 19th century and was directed exclusively against Jews. Antisemitism was a neologism born to describe those particular 19th century anti-Jewish movements.
