The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by JamesP:

I'm just going to put in a good word here for the Cooperative Bank in England; the one time I went overdrawn - and it was my fault, for not remembering a direct debit I'd set up when I was out of the country - I called them, explained my mistake, and they said 'No worries' and cancelled the charge.

Bruce @28 - if we lived in a world in which there was not a strong cultural association between Arabs and Islam, then maybe. But 'sheet-heads'? 'The civilized world?'

If I were to talk about Jews and describe them as 'manipulative,' 'deceitful,' and contrast them with 'settled peoples', and talk about, say, 'Yiddish jabber' nobody would believe my claim that I just held Judaism to be a particularly harmful set of superstitions, and I had nothing against non-religious Jews. There's clearly a racial element here. It doesn't mean the writer is a broad-spectrum racist, of course, but race, culture, and religion are very tightly tied together when it comes to the fashionable bigotry of our day.

Well, yes. The comments might *just* be defensible on their own - at a stretch - a Plastic Man stretch - if it wasn't for, y'know, the racist epithet.

@3 Wow, that's some pretty pathetic apologism, right there.

I suppose if the editor had lived in Harlem for a couple of years and used a different racial epithet, you would be explaining that he was only refering to *criminal* negroes.

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