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# Assemblyman Dov Hikind is considering buying property in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem.

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Assemblyman Dov Hikind is considering buying property in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem.

I have a Viva Puerto Rico T-shirt which I got from a genuine Puerto Rican for helping him out of a landlord-tenant jam. It has a nice Puerto Rican flag on it, and a palm tree. I believe it's supposed to make me an honorary Puerto Rican. I certainly hope so. I've never felt that I was putting down other kinds of people when I wear it, especially since I'm totally Irish and look it. We islanders have to stick together.

Puerto Rico is a place, not a religion.

Gee, you must be some kinda genius!

What is your point, exactly?

You're insulting my intelligence, yet you don't get the point of this very simple statement? Gee, you must be some kind of retard.

The problem with organized religion is that each one teaches its followers that they are the ONLY chosen ones that matter and the rest of us are fucked. I have no problem with different ethnicities or different viewpoints or different faiths, but when it is organized into a tenet that puts 'us' against 'them', that's when the problems begin. Judaism is an organized religion. Hebrews are an ethnicity. There's a difference. Brooklyn Hebrews would be a better, less volatile name.

Are you seriously arguing that prejudice happens with organized religion but not with race?

It's easy to blame "organized religion", but without it, there's always another identity that people will rally around, whether it be racial, cultural, ideological, etc. The trick is to have a culture connecting people by geography (soil) so that people identify with their neighbors, and work toward the improvement of their surrounding physical community over time.

No, I wasn't saying that at all.

"When two tribes go to war, one is all that you can score.."

We live in a mostly free society. People can voice their opinion either way.

The people that make this shirt have just has much right and freedom as the person that made that sticker. Two different opposing viewpoints.

If you say destroy all those stickers, then it's ok to say if you see someone wearing that shirt to destroy it too.

I think I could have some success making "Bronx Caucasians" shirts. I could probably sell them to all 4,000 of us.

I'm patiently waiting for mine, Tom.

Great, a racial supremest t-shirt.

Well, I guess it would be okay to support one's own folk, but I wonder if people would have the same reaction to a t-shirt reading, "Upper East Anglo-Saxons" or "Westchester Aryans".

Because there are Aryan hate groups? Are you really this annoying?

or something about being irish

I'm an atheist negro.. I'm totally getting one!

I want to see someone who's obviously a goy (e.g., Aziz Ansari) wear one of these shirts ironically.

You and me both!

That Brooklyn Jews shirt is definitely one of those "I can't believe someone didn't do it already" items, and it couldn't happen to two nicer folks.

totally right, I know them and they're a supernice, irreverent couple.