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- From: tb13@ellis.uchicago.edu (leon joel gross)
- Subject: Re: Gritz nno anti-Semite
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:25:49 GMT
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- In article <12NOV199223271565@acad3.alaska.edu> ksjwr@acad3.alaska.edu (REDELSS JOHN W) writes:
- >Is it possible that Gritz is no anti-Semite but merely finds Jews interesting
- >or thinks his listeners might find them interesting?
-
- Then read the information about the crowd he hangs out with, and
- their 'interest' in Jews. The KKK and neo-Nazis are 'interested'
- in Jews too.
-
- >I know I've always been fascinated with Jews. They seem to be special in a lot
- >of ways. I don't think anyone would claim they are "just like everyone else."
-
- Why not? Why don't you read Shylock's speach....
- "If you prick us, do we not bleed".
- Isn't the whole point that Jews ARE like everyone else?
- What is this 'specialness'? Why do you think that nobody would claim
- that they are "just like everyone else"? Is it because there are almost
- no Jews in Alaska and you don't know any?
-
-
- >Does this curiosity make me an anti-Semite?
- No, but it makes some people suspicious. Many people don't like being
- objects of curiousity.
-
- >I don't think so. As a Mormon I
- >think I AM a Jew.
- As a Jew, I think that you are not. What sense of the word 'Jew'
- are you using?
-
- >I'Ve never met anti-Semitic Mormon. That would be like an
- >anti-Semitic Jew.
- Right, and the black nationalists who claim that the people in the
- bible were all black can't be anti-Jewish because the real Jews were
- black.
- Appropriations of another culture and symbolism is not a way to
- enamor one to others.
-
- Do you know what Jews are? Do you know what anti-Semitism is?
- How am I supposed to know if you are qualified make the judgment
- "I've never met an anti-Semitic Mormon"
-
- >Because Bo Gritz is a practicing Mormon, I think it is very unlikely he is
- >anti-Semitic.
-
- And the Koran demonstrates respect for Jews, therefore there are no
- anti-Semitic Muslims, right?
- And the Constitution rules out discrimination, so there are no racist
- politicians, right?
-
-
- > i've never met an anti-Semitic Mormon.
- And I've never met a Jewish one.
-
- Leon Gross
- I'm not an actor, but I plan one on TV.
-
-