My college education, an introduction
A few years back I was a student at UCI, and I was eager to begin my special training in internationalism. My major was international studies, and although I was a Bushite at the time, there was enough activity to get me to start thinking about things differently, and by the time I was out I had come to my own conclusions about things, although it always seemed like I came about my knowledge by resisting everything being taught to me. First as a radical right wing conservative, ready to tear up the liberal mind control of university groupthink, then later when I finally decided to look into those crazy conspiracy theories I had always assumed were wacky and "anti-american", I found reasonable rational arguments, and I felt that the official version was an insult to my intelligence.
The apartheid wall at UCI is still up, and was put up while I was there (it was also burned at one point!), it remains controversial, and UCI did seem to be a hot spot for this particular debate over Israel. I knew people on both sides of the issue, and in my Middle Eastern Politics class discussions were heated between mainly muslims and jews, both were represented in large numbers on campus, and both were very outspoken. There were kids with israeli flags on their backpacks, and apparently some controversy over a few kids who wore green sashes to their graduation. http://www.standwithus.com/news_post.asp?NPI=76
I recently have found some of my old notes from that class about Israel. Not much new information, although it does mention how the holocaust is the reason for the jewish state, and how the israeli public wishes to "preserve greater Israel" which means holding on to Gaza and the West Bank. In class we did go over quite a bit, and it has been beneficial for me and my understanding although, they never really pointed out the terrorism that brought Israel into being, the Lavon affair, the attack on the Liberty or other heinous crimes of the Zionist state.
There is a lot more I would like to share about my "education" there, although I am short on time. Other interesting classes I attended there were: World Religions in which I remember the Jewish Rabbi who came to talk to us, and told us how Jews bring the world into existience by studying the Torah, because God must be let in, or else POOF no world.
Also my Multiculturalism class,in which we studied the varied cultures of the world, their practices and traditions, although apparently the only thing worthy to teach about white people, is how they are inherently racist. More on that later, sorry, but I'm off to work for that ever hyperinflated dollar so I can pay off my credit card debt.
Of course. Cause it's ok to say your proud to be a black, brown, yellow or red goy, but your a bigot pig if you say your satisfied to be white goy and live amongst your kind.
Its Orwellian dogma come to life everyday spun into the minds of the ignorant and benign masses that consider themselves alive.
It's makes my stomach earl to hear of such pathetic trash, and even more so to know there are idiots and imbeciles out their calling themselves astute.
"I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it" Voltaire
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"Hey you, Whitehouse. Ha ha,.. charade you are" Pigs/Animals/Pink Floyd
It looks like Peacetroll is trying to make the point of this multicultural class.
Nobody is inherently anything. Our opinions are shaped by our experiences and by the information we have access to.
If a person has very little information outside his own personal experience, he might become racist, if he has had bad experiences with members of another ethnic group.
If he has been taught by family or friends or others he trusts, that those people in the other group are inherently bad, he will look at them from the beginning with suspicion.
If you look at somebody with suspicion this somebody will most likely look back with suspicion at you.
That´s how it works.
As for black people in America.
They have been discriminated against in the past, but now some "liberals" are teaching some kind of victimology to black people, telling them that because they have been victims of discrimination, they or their ancestors have no responsibility towards society and they have every right to hit back at their former oppressors.
And they are taught, that they should look with suspicion at every white person, because whites are inherently racist.
Of course this attitude backfires badly.
And the end will be a new round of race riots, where both sides believe they are morally right and the other side is the devil.
This is, of course, the best way of divide and conquer in which the only winner is the elite, a way that has been proven successful over and over again.
As for Jews, they are being influenced by their parents, their teachers and the media like everybody else.
Sure, the principle that the world can only exist when Jews study the Torah can make for a lot of supremacism.
But then, every religion believes to have a special relationship with God.
We Christian believe that Christ took upon Himself the sins of the world and so opened again the gates of heaven.
Without Him the world would be lost.
For some Christians this is also a good reason for feeling superior.
But many other Christians believe that this is rather a reason for humility, because Christ taught us most of all to be humble and loving.
Not all Jews are supremacists. I have met a few religious Jews in Palestine who worked with Palestinians in human rights issues, and they were very humble.
We need to stop generalizing, we need to demolish the Apartheidswall between different groups and try to build bridges.
P.S.
I´m now going to write you a comment on your earlier post.
It might take a while though.