>>>Well, I guess we have to agree to disagree.
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>>Fine. Last question though if I may - am I also a racist, anti-semite for not siding with his accusers?
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>Not necessarily. I haven't seen anything from you in either word or context that would make me think that. Defending someone's right to say whaterver doesn't make you anything other than a believer in freedom of speech. If you look back over our conversations, you'll find I never said that I felt Metin has no right to his opinions or to airing them, I only said that I thought that some of what he said sounded to me like racism.
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>It's a real hard line to toe. But overall, freedom of speech has to be paramount.
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>My mother thinks I'm an anti-Semite because I don't endorse everything Israel does, in spite of being part Jewish.

It would be pretty hard to endorse everything Israel does. (Almost as hard as endorsing everything the U.S. does). And I am not anti-Semetic, either.