Explanation about the last column

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asked 3 years ago

Hello Miki
In your last column, you wrote: “I have the right to love or not love whoever I want, as long as I don’t discriminate against them or do them injustice. And if I don’t like Moroccan or Mizrahi singers, is that racism? That’s my opinion.”
Isn’t not liking Moroccan singers because they themselves are Moroccan a kind of “racism”? If you justify it because you don’t like the singing and the style, then fine, but if a person doesn’t like Mizrahi musicians in general because Mizrahi doesn’t suit them, isn’t that racism? A person who doesn’t like soccer players because they’re black and has no other reason besides that, even though he doesn’t discriminate against them. Nothing. Isn’t that racism?
Thanks in advance.

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מיכי Staff answered 3 years ago

Why didn’t you put it there? I meant someone who doesn’t like Moroccan singers because of their singing, but on the basis of race. That is, all Moroccans are not liked by him because there is something about the Moroccan singer that he doesn’t like. But even if it’s because of their origin and not because of their singing, I’m still not sure there’s any point in faulting here (you could call it racism semantically, but the important question is whether it’s wrong). S.S. is what he feels, and feelings are not moral or immoral. Behavior is up to me, and that’s where I’m judged.

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