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- From: tichauer@valpso.hanse.de (Manfredo Tichauer)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
- Subject: Re: American Antisemitism
- Message-ID: <eH7NuB4w165w@valpso.hanse.de>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 02:08:49 +0100
- References: <4458@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU>
- Organization: "The Private Site of Manfredo Tichauer"
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- aaldoubo@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Shaqeeqa) writes:
-
- > In article <RaNLuB3w165w@valpso.hanse.de> tichauer@valpso.hanse.de (Manfredo
- >
- > Nabil wrote:
- > Can you find out the percentage of Americans who don't like Arabs?
- >
- > > Why should he? This is s.c.j.
- >
- > Nabeel was referring to Arabs as Semites, therefore, he was wondering,
- > in that context of American anti-semitism, what the percentage was in
- > view of hatred/bias against Arabs.
- >
- > But we know, it isn't the same thing solely because the term was
- > invented by a German and according to any dictionary is defined
- > as "A person who is hostile toward or prejudiced against Jews"
- > (American Heritage) [actually under 'anti-semite'].
- >
- > Now, I'm sure this is convenient as a way of not catagorizing Arabs
- > as Semitic people or even in viewing the hostilities and prejudices
- > against Arabs in this and other countries - especially Germany. So,
- > for the sake of semantics, should we say anti-Arab?
- >
- > Anisa
- >
-
- I think anti-Arab or anti-Muslims (Turcs and Iranians are non Arabs)
- would be the right definition. Unfortunately we Jews have "leased"
- exclusively for all times the words anti-Semitism and Holocaust, this
- last word only since a Mr.Greene in Holywood decided to make a film
- of very low quality, that surprisingly for everybody (even for himself!)
- achieved that most of the TV-viewers set in motion their lacrymal glands.
- Personally I found that film of very bad taste, but at least in Germany
- it was a conversation and discussion topic for a couple of weeks, and
- that was the only positive thing of the film. The word itself, Holocaust,
- was also bad chosen, since it means "burnt offering" and I can asure you
- that my family wasn't offered to any German god: they were butchered just
- because it happened that they were born as Jews.
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