I think it's a great idea for them to be able to choose to remove accounts of people who are racist/anti-semitic.

To Israel even Bernie is an antisemite. Israel has destroyed the label having any meaning except for people that aren't loyal to whatever decisions they make.

Sure but Kanye’s not criticising Israel’s foreign policy. This is fairly clearly a racist rant.

What I saw wasn't inherently racist but maybe it is. I am no fan of Kanye though.

I actually am a fan of Kanye, but I cannot see how disliking producers based on their rave or “I’m going death con (sic) for insert race here” could be seen as as anything other than racist.

Again... Jews are not a race unless specifically directed towards those people originating from a specific region. Jews refers to people practicing Judaism. If you're suggesting Judaism prevents people from other races, then in fact that would be racist.

> Again... Jews are not a race unless specifically directed towards those people originating from a specific region.

You are fairly unique globally in this view.

My understanding is that you realise Jews are an ethno-religious group, but you believe criticism of Jews is generally based around religious ideas rather than race.

My belief is that unless religious law is specifically mentioned the simplest case - racism - is the most likely reason. Occam's razor and all.

So you're telling me that the belief some people have that Jews control money has to do where there from and not the religious teachings?

Does that mean that if I talk bad about Christianity that I am racist as well?

1. Yes.

2. No Christianity isn’t a race. You could also speak about the negative parts of Jewish religion, ie genital mutilation or orthodox people asking others to use electricity for them, which would be reasonable criticisms.

Jews or Jewish can refer to people that practice Judaism. If you're saying that people that aren't descendents from the region can't be Jews then that is racist.

BTW it isn't just circumcision but spreading herpes to newborns after sucking on the circumcised penises.

> Jews or Jewish can refer to people that practice Judaism.

It can! I've acknowledged as such in the two threads.

> If you're saying that people that aren't descendents from the region can't be Jews then that is racist.

I haven't said that. It looks like you're just being inflammatory rather than having any kind of response to my points.

HN needs a block feature. dang?

What about people who publicly oppose return to office in nyc or support Occupy Wall Street 2.0? Are you proposing a special exception for racists, or that they should be able to fire any customer whose speech is offensive to the Bank?

Why not? They’re private companies. Just like Facebook and Twitter and PayPal and CloudFlare.

Customers can withdraw all their funds and close their accounts on a whim also.

I’m in favor of a state owned bank of last resort. Private banks can do whatever they want, but some secure way to store funds is a human right.