On Aug 17, 2005, at 11:06 PM, Andrew Paul wrote:
I asked a serious question. You are drawing a very long bow there, and well, it's a little insulting. Sure, there are anti-Semites out there, plenty of them.. Give us the benefit of the doubt would you and stop tarring us with some brush we don't deserve.
I think you do not understand the thrust of Zimmy's argument, which seems to be that for hundreds or thousands of years, various forms of overt and covert evils have been leveled against Jews by various groups (Amelekites, Egyptians, Germans, American Klansmen, and so forth), to the point that virtually all thought is now irretrievably poisoned by the meme of anti-semitism. You can't avoid it, you can't deny it, it is in your cultural DNA. If you spent your entire life defending the rights of Jewish people everywhere, you would still be poisoned by anti-semitism and subject to criticism on that front. You can't deny it because you can't escape it. It is in you. Dave _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
