Boycott Israel ; Oxfam asked to dump Scarlett Johansson as ' ambassador '

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  1. moon

    moon Well-Known Member

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    MLK spoke up for the black man and now we've got an African American president. I put it to you that the two are not unrelated.
     
  2. Talon

    Talon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    And under the political activist/community organizer who currently serves as our president (faux-ridge runners have a prime minister ;)), who's mother happened to be white, the unemployment rate of blacks is higher than it was when MLK was alive. Looks like Serfin's point stands.
     
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    Show us the stats. and population figures. Not that it's about unemployment rates. Serfin's point was about quality of life as judged by the availability of food. Let's see if we can't ridicule yet another of your arguments made for arguments sake.
     
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    ' Most Americans ' should give these derogatory Zionists a toe up the jaxie.
     
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    (*)(*)(*)(*) these people how dare the Jews give the Arabs jobs paying exponentially times more than any Palestinian owned company in the West Bank and in fact pays more than any company in the Arab world.
     
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    is the violence the answer to everything?
     
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    Comparing Israel to Apartheid South Africa or Nazi Germany is nothing more than demonization and hyperbole, in fact the only apartheid states and Nazi style regimes to be found in the Israeli Muslim conflict are the Arab and Muslims states the vast majority of whose citizens overtly and unabashedly hate Jews (not Israelis but Jews) and whose governments practice religious apartheid and gender segregation.
     
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    Let's see if we can ridicule political activism for political activism's sake. ;)

    Obviously (to some, at least), I'm well aware of Serfin's point that all the political activism in the world won't put food on the table, and employment has everything to do with being able to put food on your own table:

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    http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...oyment-is-consistently-double-that-of-whites/

    Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968, by the way.

    You want ridiculous? Look at what all the political activism in the world has gotten the people it was supposedly intended to help (BTW, the author is black):

    War on Poverty Revisited
    by Thomas Sowell
    http://capitalismmagazine.com/2004/08/war-on-poverty-revisited/

    History is full of examples of how political activism ended up doing more harm than good...
     
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    Talon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Violence is a war monger's answer to everything.
     
  10. moon

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    Desperate Palestinians work for invaders because they are desperate. When the occupiers are forced to withdraw the Palestinians will, once again, be free to pursue their own occupations on their own lands.
     
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    Talon;
    Even your own graph shows a downward trend. Let's not forget the first black president. Political activism works. Go try annoying some Brits.
     
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    Sure, but there was a lot of time in between those things.

    I'm not saying that a boycott is unfeasible. However, Palestine needs alternatives for employment that don't involve terrorism.

    You mentioned earlier that they are captives due to circumstances, essentially. I would agree; however, it seems odd that, despite all the oil money out there, we haven't seen more investment by neighboring oil rich countries in legitimate industry for the Palestinians.

    If they care so much, why is a lot of the oil money instead going to terrorism?
     
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    Sevaral of the oil-rich States are tyranical and colluding with the US to protect the status of their tyrants.
     
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    Since you're a Brit I'll try annoying you with some more inconvenient facts - the only reason the unemployment rate is trending down is because the labor force participation rate is at its lowest point since Jimmy Carter was president (1978 to be precise):

    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/participation-rate-in-labor-force-matches-35-year-low-2014-01-10

    Let's not forget that our president's mother was white, and political activism often does more harm than good...
     
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    I will not buy Soda Stream or pay to watch any of her movies in future. Thanks for making us aware
     
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    Clear in translation.
     
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    The governments perhaps, but there are plenty of oil barons that throw money at terrorism.
     
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    You know, it seems we've been here before.

    Frankly, I'd much appreciate it if ALL of these idiots would just shut up about political causes of ANY stripe and stick to acting/singing/astrophysics/underwater basket-weaving, whatever.

    Although - Scarlett Johansson - Mmm.

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    Danish/Ashkenazi - wow, what a combination.
     
  20. moon

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    It's biting ! No let up- even for the pretty pawns of the Zionist entertainments industries. :mrgreen:
     
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    Yep, exactly the same, we might as well shoot them all right ?
     
  22. Gilos

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    About the same as traffic officer gunning down "J walkers", a criminal is a criminal....
     
  23. Gilos

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    They know, they blow it out of porposion to shock ppl into action and change the "status que", I know that and I still find myself amazed by the BS they come up with from time to time......"making them build gallows".....
     
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    But the US itself sends money to the Palestinains so why would it prevent KSA to do the same for example ? perhaps KSA has its own political agenda ?
     
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    I dont buy Soda Stream or pay to watch her movies either lol :)
     

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