Funny stuff!

http://wonkette.com/412862/look-its-atheist-santa-clause

Take note how we frustrate anti-whites with "the Arab Trader Argument!" Just because they give the argument a name "the Arab Trader argument" doesn't mean it's not a good argument. It's an excellent argument! Also, the "tables turned" argument. If the blacks were on top, would they oppress Whitey? You betcha! They already do, whenever they have a bit of power!

http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/2009/12/express-their-racist-opinions-with-t.html

It's an example of The Arab Trader Argument, which, as Abagond explained,

goes like this: if white Americans do something evil and terrible it is all right -- or at least not all that bad -- so long as they can find at least one example from world history of someone else doing the same thing. Thus the Atlantic slave trade was not so bad because Arabs traders sold slaves too!

This argument isn't just childish and silly. It's also insidious, because white people so often use it, and variations of it, to justify their people's own past and present abuses of other people. It's also a way of shrugging off collective racial responsibility for such abuses, including one's own complicity in them.

The Arab Trader argument appears in many guises. Here, for instance, is another example that I heard recently --

Well, it may be true that white people continue to benefit from white privilege. And yes, institutional racism exists too. BUT, if the tables were turned, black people wouldn't do anything about it either.

And so, the logic goes, "Since they would enjoy the perks of racial privilege and ignore oppression that they've caused, why should white people do anything about all that? Get off our case, why don'tcha? We're really no one worse than anyone else would be in our position. They'd do it too!" (And something else -- it always seems to be "the blacks," doesn't it?)