Segacs's World I Know

The racists at Concordia are at it again. This time, they’ve decided to revive the ridiculous “ethno-bomb” story. In an anonymous user comment on the Link’s website – to a story lauding anti-Israel journalist Robert Fisk, no less – regular poster “ii” cites an article from a fringe extremist website called the World Socialist Web Site that claims that the United States is trying to develop chemical weapons that will target only Arabs in Iraq:

In other words, A SCIENTIFICALLY PERFECTED FORM OF RACE WAR could become an instrument of imperialist conquest. Were such a weapon available today, it could presumably be used to “liberate” Iraq by murdering its entire Arab population while leaving US troops and the country’s oilfields unscathed. (emphasis added by commentator)

Although perhaps in the planning stage, it seems clear that at least the Pentagon is indeed working towards such a weapon, an “ethno-bomb.”

This racist accusation, usually levelled against Israel, was published yet again just weeks ago in an SPHR publication and distributed at Concordia, even despite the moratorium that was still in effect, and despite the clearly racist (not to mention utterly preposterous and unrealistic) nature of the accusation itself.

While it’s tempting to write off comments posted on the Link’s site as irrelevant, I’ve noticed that they tend to be representative of what’s going on behind the scenes. Many people say things anonymously on web boards that they’d never say in public or write with a byline, because they know how badly it would reflect upon them. But they think that by posting it online, without a name, they can say what they really truly think. And, judging by some of the postings over there, what they truly think is damn scary.

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2. Moratorium on “racist”
3. More Concordia Resources
4. Googlebomb success
5. Missing the point