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- Subject: Re: Report on Gritz from Idaho
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.135158.917@midway.uchicago.edu>
- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:51:58 GMT
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- References: <1993Jan24.102050.2547@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> <1993Jan24.190540.22575@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan25.080724.28481@StarConn.com>
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- In article <1993Jan25.080724.28481@StarConn.com> rburns@StarConn.com (Randall J. Burns) writes:
- >I got news
- >for you Mr. Frank, you have negative credibility among the constituencies
- >in which Gritz and Duke have appeal.
-
- Of course. I'm Jewish, and they're trying to appeal to anti-Semites.
- Not much I can do about that. I'm talking to the rational people out
- there who don't think, like Gritz, that I'm the spawn of Satan.
-
- >So far, I've seen a lot of defensiveness, and
- >insecurity around the situation of Jews in America(which I see as
- >similar to the attempts in the 40's to deny that certain Sicilian ethnic
- >Mafias really existed)
-
- One difference is that (1) there's no Jewish analogue to the Mafia, and
- that (2) no one was calling for the mass execution of Sicilians.
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