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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: WILL THE REAL MISOGYNISTS PLEASE STAND UP? Case 1.
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- Date: 12 Sep 92 21:02:09 GMT
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- In <BuCz46.Muv.2@cs.cmu.edu> garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
-
- >In article <nyikos.715894974@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >#In <Bu50vy.8Ax.2@cs.cmu.edu> garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
- >#
- >##In article <nyikos.715737676@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >###In <Bu43C8.6ox.2@cs.cmu.edu> garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
- >#
- >#
- >####Oh, yeah, right. DOD uses one of his anti-Semitic slurs as a .sig.
- >####Are you telling us that you don't read any of DOD's articles now,
- >####or are you just using the "if I can't defend it, I never saw
- >####it" excuse?
- >###
- >###What's anti-Semitic about disagreeing with one woman's distorted account
- >###of what Judaism teaches about human life?
- >#
- >##I asked a Reform Rabbi if the view was distorted. (By the way,
- >##the woman is describing the Reform view of *personhood*, not
- >##human life.) She said no.
- >#
- >#Have you ever asked an Orthodox rabbi?
-
- >Do you think that there is One True Form of Judaism, Nyikos?
-
- No, there are three main forms, and when you call someone anti-Semitic
- you are implying he is against all three.
-
- By the way, a close friend of mine, a Reform Jew from New York, assures
- me that there are more Orthodox Jews than Reform Jews EVEN IN THE UNITED
- STATES. When I was suitably astonished by his statement, he said that
- there is a huge Orthodox community "hidden in the bowels of Brooklyn" which
- has very little to do with the big outside world.
-
- >###And even if it were not
- >###distorted--would you call someone anti-Islamic if he criticized
- >###people who saw nothing wrong with a precept allowing polygamy?
- >#
- >##Yes. I might, for example, think that polygamy is morally wrong.
- >##(Please note that this is hypothetical.) That doesn't mean that
- >##I would feel that I must criticize people whose religion
- >##advocated or accepted polygamy.
-
- Even if they personally approved of it and promoted it?
-
- >#So far, we are only talking about Reform Judaism, which has no
- >#official world-view. As far as I have been able to ascertain,
- ># rabbis are pretty much free to
- >#judge what is OK and what is not OK within Reform Judaism, except
- >#perhaps where the Torah is concerned. And I have yet to see
- >#support for the notion that personhood begins a month after birth in the
- >#Torah.
-
- >I truly hope that you are not pretending to be a Jewish
- >scholar now.
-
- No, the Torah is part of the common heritage of Judaism, Christianity,
- and Islam.
-
- > You don't seem to even understand the basic
- >precepts of Reform Judaism.
-
- So enlighten me about them, please. Tell me where what I am saying above
- is incorrect. It is based on my best recollection of a conversation I had
- two months ago with my Reform Jewish friend mentioned above.
-
- >I note that you evaded the basic issue. I'm not surprised,
- >but I do note it.
-
- As far as I can recall, the question of whether I have seen an anti-Semitic
- statement by either Doug or Steve IS one of the basic issues, the other
- being whether they are anti-Semitic. I have addressed the first (see
- above and below) and as for the second, I presume they are innocent
- until proven guilty.
-
- >#And I have yet to see an anti-Semitic statement by either Holtsinger
- >#or Chaney. I am not denying that they have occurred, only that I
- >#have seen any.
-
- >That's nice. Some of us did. It makes their delight in this
- >quote all the more telling.
-
- >##was a post in which Chaney attributed comments made by a
- >##woman with a Jewish-sounding last name to "the Jews of
- >##New York," and denigrated the entire group.)
- >#
- >#Well, you've just attributed comments made by one Jewish woman
- >#and one Reform woman rabbi to Judaism as a whole, yet you have
- >#not denigrated Judaism--or have you?
-
- >I did no such thing. As I've said elsewhere, I don't even know
- >that the woman is Jewish.
-
- Oh, so now we're down to one woman rabbi?
-
- > DOD and Chaney made that assumption.
-
- Where???????? Not in their .sig file, that's for sure.
-
- >Susan
-
-