Most white gentile europeans agree that there is no more racism and anti-semitism in Europe.
Nonsense. Yes, there is racism and antisemitism in Europe. But most "white gentile Europeans" agree racism and antisemitism no longer exist?
That kind of assertion needs evidence to back it up.
My assertion is based on purely anecdotal evidence of my own experience and what I hear from other non-gentile visitors to or inhabitants of Europe. One of my former students, a Moroccan, who lives in Germany told me that he's learned to speak english when meeting people in order to get treated as an American instead of a Turk. I've repeated this story to a number of white european liberals and always get the same hostile response. None of the jews/arabs/turks/africans in Europe I've told this story to finds it at all surprising.
I also base it on the very angry defensive response here to criticism of Jostien Garder's anti-semitic op-ed.
Wikipedia. Are we conducting a class on the English language here?
Just to forestall what I guess, perhaps incorrectly, as the probable next move in this gambit, belief or non-belief is not material.
I'm an atheist - am I Gentile (non-Jew) or non-Gentile (non-Christian)? Or am I Christian because I was baptised? A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous
The Moroccan fellow I was discussing was neither white nor european.
But "gentile" is, of course, a context dependent word. Mormons use it for non-mormons. I don't think the way "gentile" is used historically in discussing European/Jewish/Christian divisions would include Morrocans, but ...
My point was that people in the normative/dominant cultural group don't see the same world that people in other groups see.
I was reacting to what I hear from other non-gentile visitors to or inhabitants of Europe.
To be honest, the expression "non-gentile" sounds to me like "non-barbarian" or "non-gaijin".
No debate from me there. A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous
Everyone is someone else's foreigner.
"Most white gentile europeans agree that there is no more racism and anti-semitism in Europe."
