Comments on: More Fraud Hiding Behind Religion and Philanthropy /2009/08/04/more-fraud-hiding-behind-religion-and-philanthropy/ Politics + Technology = Nonsense at the Speed of Light Tue, 01 Sep 2026 03:05:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.22 By: Anonymous /2009/08/04/more-fraud-hiding-behind-religion-and-philanthropy/#comment-2780 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:45:56 +0000 /2009/08/04/more-fraud-hiding-behind-religion-and-philanthropy/#comment-2780 “Israel on Sunday ratcheted up pressure on Sweden to condemn a Swedish newspaper report about alleged organ harvesting that has heightened tensions between the two countries.”

http://www.thelocal.se/21634/20090823/

Don’t overlook the comments, especially the – 17:08 August 23, 2009 by mysticbumwipe

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“An organization that alleged Israeli troops used Palestinians as human shields in Gaza accused the Foreign Ministry on Sunday of “endangering democracy,” following a Haaretz report that the ministry had asked the Netherlands to freeze funds to the group.”

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1102793.html
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FF

]]> By: Tanstaafl /2009/08/04/more-fraud-hiding-behind-religion-and-philanthropy/#comment-2775 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:43:20 +0000 /2009/08/04/more-fraud-hiding-behind-religion-and-philanthropy/#comment-2775 I consider Italy and Italians Western.

The list contains examples of racial/ethnic enclaves the existence of which empirically demonstrates a characteristic of human nature not restricted to non-Western races/ethnies.

There are more, eg. Polish Downtown, Little Havana, Harlem, Watts, Crown Heights, …

That these enclaves are younger or older, more or less starkly identifiable, or more or less unpleasant places for outsiders doesn’t diminish either of my points – which is A) that their existence reflects the normal human nature of both immigrants and the natives they displace to prefer to associate with those more closely related to themselves, and B) I don’t want to live there.

]]> By: Anonymous /2009/08/04/more-fraud-hiding-behind-religion-and-philanthropy/#comment-2773 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:09:08 +0000 /2009/08/04/more-fraud-hiding-behind-religion-and-philanthropy/#comment-2773 Every city above a certain size has a chinatown. This is not a uniquely chinese phenomena – there are koreatowns, little italys, MLK and Cesar Chavez Boulevards… The wealth of such enclaves relative to their motherlands or the many other ways in which they differ from those motherlands is not as important to any of us who aren’t a member of their group as the fact that those enclaves are filled with people who don’t look like us, who don’t think like us, and who don’t like us. The enclave operates for the benefit of their own kind.

You would include Little Italies in that list of non-Western ethnies?

]]> By: Tanstaafl /2009/08/04/more-fraud-hiding-behind-religion-and-philanthropy/#comment-2772 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:01:51 +0000 /2009/08/04/more-fraud-hiding-behind-religion-and-philanthropy/#comment-2772 And some just dig asian chicks.

]]> By: fellist /2009/08/04/more-fraud-hiding-behind-religion-and-philanthropy/#comment-2771 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:51:39 +0000 /2009/08/04/more-fraud-hiding-behind-religion-and-philanthropy/#comment-2771 Your response to this point was to defend/advocate chinese immigration, because you believe it creates hong kongs, ie. economic improvement.

Some critics of nationalism genuinely believe that economic claims constitute the higher order priority, these people are misguided but honest, you can respect them. But to other anti-nationalists economic arguments (mostly spurious) are just a useful tool that’ll scare off some of the curious onlookers. Hi, Diamed!

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