Reply #88: But now yr comparing the Palestinians to the Nazis?

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A few posts back you said: 'no one can really be compared to the Nazis'

But now yr saying something very different: 'My point is, such a statement (that Nazism) isn't bigoted or racist. It's why I don't have a problem with what Amos Oz wrote.'

What does Nazism have to do with what Amos Oz wrote if you don't think anyone can be compared to the Nazis?

I'm going to repeat it again. Describing either Palestinian or Israeli society as evil, sick etc, is not only engaging in negative stereotyping, but is in both cases bigoted. And usually it comes from those who are ignorant of the very societies they label as evil, and who are also ignorant of what a society is. And whether those bigoted labels are being aimed at Israelis or Palestinians, in both cases the person throwing that label out there will rattle off all sorts of justifications for why it's okay to do it to one people but then yell demonisation and bigotry if the same is done to the other, and they never ever see the hypocrisy of what they're doing. Unfortunately, while this is a favoured tactic from conservatives (the article I posted by the author in yr OP is a good example), this sort of attitude does seep through to the Left, as exhibited by Amos Oz in this case.