The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:
Is it racist if a black British woman tells a woman in a full-face burka to go back to her own country?
Yes - 40%
No - 60%
A good turnout with 126 votes. Thanks to everybody who took part.
I was with the majority on this one.
It is clear that "Jewish" is both a people/race and a religion, and there is a ninety percent overlap between "Hindus" and "Indians", in which case it would be impossible/futile to say whether criticising members of either group simply for being members of that group would be 'religionist' or 'racist'*, but Islam is not a race. It's not even a religion if you ask me, it's an inferiority complex/massive grudge against 'everybody else'.
* Unless somebody could show that he dislikes all Indians equally, be they Hindu, Sikh, Christian or Muslim. That would just be racist but at least no religious prejudice involved.
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Just for fun, this week let's have a geography/general knowledge quiz: "Which of the following has a smaller surface area than Israel?".
Vote here or use the widget in the sidebar.
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