Anti-apartheid is not racism

Are You Racist? by George Galloway | Oxford Union (YouTube)

I’d never seen this, so it’s new to me. Eleven years ago, George Galloway refused to debate an Israeli about apartheid. He claims that he was misled and would never have agreed to it. Of course, people claimed that he was being racist. He clarified in a manner that only a handful of people could, off the cuff and magisterially.

“[…] George Gallowaybecause of my time in South Africa, because of the decades that I worked against apartheid in South Africa, do you imagine that I would turn up at a university and debate apartheid with a supporter from South Africa of the apartheid system? I’d rather punch him in the face than debate with him. Why? Because apartheid is a racist poison. It is the worst kind of fascism and I would never debate with any supporter of South African apartheid, so why should I debate with a supporter of Israeli apartheid?”

On a side note, it continues to be utterly shameful that the Google transcription service doesn’t know certain words. The automatic transcription service could be a miracle of modern technology. It has instead been turned into trash by the idiots in charge of it. They neuter it with their policy. Instead of teaching it how to recognize curse words and eliding them, why don’t you teach it proper capitalization and punctuation? Why don’t you teach it the word “apartheid”, which it reliably fucks up six ways to Sunday, probably because some Israeli and Turkish pressure groups are saying ix-nay on the partheid-a-ay.