(July 29, 2011 at 7:26 am)bozo Wrote: Do you by chance know how Google arrives at its definition? Just curious.No, unless you can tell from the page I got it from: http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A...32&bih=620
It sounded like a good and valid definition. Racism isn't always about people thinking they are superior to others; it's often used in the way Min used it; to imply that all people of a particular country or race have a characteristic, based on the fact that some or all of their fellow countrymen / race have that characteristic.
Minimalist Wrote:What part of "South Korea Dog Meat Festival was giving you the most trouble, Adrian? As with the Pat Condell thing I do not feel that I have to exempt by name every Korean who does not eat dog meat. The fact that they have a DOG MEAT FESTIVAL is pretty much all I need to run with.So, the fact that the UK has gun festivals, or fox hunting festivals, or the fact that some of us celebrate the Queen's birthday, means that everyone in the UK is a gun-toting, fox hunting, monarchist? Sorry to disappoint, but that is exactly the point I was making. You can't just apply the characteristics of one group of people to the whole population. People are diverse. What you implied; that all South Koreans eat dog, was racist.
As theVOID pointed out, the article which you linked to (and probably did not read) was about the protests BY SOUTH KOREANS to try and shut down the dog festival (NEWSFLASH: THEY SUCCEEDED!). Doesn't the fact that a bunch of South Koreans protested a dog festival, and managed to shut it down, mean that maybe, just maybe, not everyone in South Korea likes eating dog? Hmmm...I think it does!
Quote:Maybe you have plans for your republicolibertarianazi pals to open a dog ranch in Iowa?*sigh* again with the Nazi remarks. Try and act your age in future.
No, I don't have plans to open dog ranches; I happen to like dogs. I don't have any moral objections with people eating them if they want, since they are animals, and people seem to like eating animals. I don't see any reason why we should feel differently about certain types of animal being eaten, even if we have domesticated them. As long as they are killed in a humane way, I don't see why dogs shouldn't be eaten.
That said, I wouldn't want to eat any myself. I'd probably have thoughts in my head of all my previous dogs, and wouldn't be able to go through with it...or maybe I would.; I haven't had the experience of being offered yet. The point is, you don't have to be for or against eating dogs in order to defend the rights of people in other countries, and also defend them from racists like you who want to imply that there is some link between a South Korean chicken company and eating dogs.
