[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 8/17/2005 12:22:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> So let's see... You're not in favor of racially-motivated >> stereotyping when it persecutes "your people," but when it comes to >> me, it's perfectly OK to paint me with the European-descended >> Christian Jew-hater brush. >> > I am using dramatic licence for a purpose. I am trying to point out > to you > that subtle anti-semitism colors the views of many good poeple. It > is > subte because it is part of western culture. and has been since the > early days of christianity.
Maybe it is different where you live, but here, Jews are just another ethnic group and people tend not to pay much attention. > > >> What the hell do you know about me? What anti-semitic statements >> have >> you ever heard me make? THAT's what I mean when I say "Yes, I have >> stopped beating my wife." You accuse me along with every other >> non-Jew on the planet without so much as a second's thought. >> > I believe that your inital responses to Gautam contained subtle > anti-semitism. Not overt not conscious but there just the same. > > >> It reminds me of the character in a Woody Allen movie: "JEW eat >> lunch? JEW eat lunch? What does that mean, JEW eat lunch?" >> >> Not every criticism leveled against a Jewish person, idea or >> country >> is anti-semitism. > > Of course not but let me ask you something. Do you think that > criticisms leveled at Jews are more or lessl likely to reflect > prejudice than those leveled against christians. I am just asking > that you examine your responsed and to see how they might reflect > culturral prejudices. Until we all do this we are > doomed to fail. There is xenophobia and then there is prejudice. Even in matters of racism things are not completely black and white. xponent A Great Love Of My Life Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
