Your refuse to acknowledge that the original thread question alludes to very old and very common bigoted stereotypes of Jews?
No, I refuse to acknowledge that
alluding to a stereotype is inherently bigoted. Stereotypes exist, and recognizing and discussing them does not inherently validate them.
And you refuse to acknowledge what I wrote in my previous post - that nobody ever asks this question about any of the 99.9% of the industries dominated by Christians in the United States? Who is lacking in intellectual (and factual) justification here?
I'm not sure why I need to address things which don't logically connect back to your broader claims about inherent bigotry, since those are the claims I'm actually disputing. That said, I can think of a few pretty obvious reasons off the top of my head as to why the two situations aren't equivalent, like the fact that Christians are already a majority (which may matter more than binary proportionality), or the fact that Christianity is not as enmeshed with ethnicity as Judaism is, or the fact that Christian culture, by the mere fact of its ubiquity, is necessarily less distinct from the culture at large. Et cetera.
None of this really demonstrates that the topic is inherently bigoted: only that bigotry exists, and that this is the kind of thing bigots sometimes discuss.
I'm not in favor of banning any remotely controversial topic - that is a red herring argument and not at all a fair or accurate description of my point
It's the logical implication of the reasons you gave for your position: that the topic is unacceptable simply because it provides a means for bigots to express themselves. So no, I don't think this is your position, but I do think that's what logically follows from the reasons you've given for your position.
Are you claiming that this stereotype doesn't exist? If you acknowledge it does exist, how can you then say inviting discussion of whether such a stereotype is true or not true has the same factual and moral acceptability as any other topic?
Simple: because you can say "no, it isn't true." Or "it's technically true, but not insidious or unfair." Or any other number of things that
talk about the stereotype without
validating it.
Prohibiting bigoted thread topics is not evil control that reinforces a stereotype - it is done on other forums as a way to show respect for people of all backgrounds and to encourage at least a basic level of civility in the exchanges on the forums.
Please read what I said again: I said it could be rationalized that way. And since you've already said that we should prohibit topics like this simply because they can enable bigots, the fact that censoring it could
also do that makes the logic self-defeating, as I explained.
I can see that this is not something you are at all concerned about, which shows me that I am making the right choice spending my time and energies elsewhere.
It's a willful misrepresentation of my position to say I'm not "concerned" about it, when I've gone well out of my way to point out that threads like this need to be (and have been) carefully monitored.
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