And if the shoe was on the other foot and an English man pushed an Iranian man and called him Iranian???????

Lord Herbert wrote on Mar 12^th, 2016 at 12:27pm:


Nobody said it was.

"Racism has its roots in the belief that some people are superior because they belong to a particular race, ethnic or national group."

Racism

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 15^th, 2016 at 1:07pm:


Racism has its roots in the belief that some people are superior because they belong to a particular race, ethnic or national group. The concept of race is a social construct, not a scientific one. (For a discussion of the meaning of the word 'race', refer to the glossary).

Racist attitudes and beliefs are misconceptions about people based on perceived racial lines and are often founded on the fear of difference, including differences in customs, values, religion, physical appearance and ways of living and viewing the world. This includes negative attitudes towards the use of different languages, 'foreign' accents or the use of non-standard variations of a dominant community language. [1]

[1] Racism on the grounds of language may be referred to as 'linguicism'.




This is laughable, conflating race, ethnicity and nationality as the roots of something that is 'socially contructed' and is not a scientific construct (as if science itself wasn't, for these people, a social construct).  But they do acknowledge in the very next paragraph that there IS difference in customs, values, religion, physical appearance - so they are not socially constructed.

So the differences are real but we must not say that one custom, religion, value system or physical appearance is better than another. 

This is ridiculous.

Lord Herbert wrote on Mar 12^th, 2016 at 12:27pm:


I'm afraid that it is a racial vilification issue here. He was targeted because he was English. The issue was that he was assaulted. Being on the Jihadi's side over a technicality is kind of embarassing.