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Originally Posted by joeysteele;9272956[B

]I wish Livingstone was careful in what and how he says things.[/B]
He must be abundantly clear the media and those with an irrational hate of Labour are ready to pounce on anything like this.

Whether historically right or not,just in this day and age,stop talking about Hitler or anything Nazi related, that seems to be the only way to avoid getting both personally or Party into bother.
UKIP have the same problem with racism,the vast majority of UKIP are not likely racist at all, their haters will always try to tar the Party with the claim however.
As is being done here as to anti semitism with Labour.

The suspension changes nothing, this will be dragged on by those with vendettas against Livingstone and from those who hate Labour anyway.
Had he been expelled, the headlines would have been as bad,even when not true.
That Labour had to expel due to rife anti semitism in its Party.

Again we get to the Chief Rabbi sticking in his gripe again, if the religious leader of Catholics or the Archbishop of Canterbury make political statements,the cry from good numbers is,religious leaders should keep out of politics.
Yet the Chief Rabbi can paint Labour any way he wishes and get solid airtime for it too.

None of this helps,personally I wish Livingstone just gracefully retired.
However it is becoming more and more that even just stating a thought on this issue and other possible contentious issues,people now dare not even explore the topic publicly.

Ridiculous.
Anti semitism is wrong and should be seen as wholly abhorrent, genuine anti semitism that is and not just thoughts and discussion about it.

The thing is, how can we be guarded about political correctness over something that is correct politically?
How much information should we teach our history students and should we teach them history that could offend them?

Even on here we have to tiptoe around our thoughts on Zionism just in case we get accused of being anti-Semitic. Like you, I thing anti-Semitism is abhorrent and unacceptable but then I think all racism is unacceptable. I should though, be able to freely state my feelings about Zionism without being demonized for it.