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To: achilles2000
Your post is simply an attempted smear.

No, yours was. You accused Jews of playing the "victim card."

I’m speaking of many types of people and was making a point that appears to have eluded you.

The thread is about Jews. The dispute is whether the Inquisition really persecuted Jews. You weren't speaking of "many types of people" - you were speaking about Jews. Are you (d)eluding yourself?

Just because racism and victimization is a modern non sequitur, does not mean that so-called conservatives can resort to slandering the Jewish boogieman - again. There are quite a few on FreeRepublic that like to give in to their "inner skinhead."
60 posted on 07/11/2011 7:23:29 AM PDT by Tzfat
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To: Tzfat

Some Jews do play the victim card, as do many other groups (some of whom I could be identified with). The post was in part about how being psychologically invested in being a victim will tend to make people cling to false historical narratives, such as the popular conception of The Inquisition.

If you had bothered to read the linked article you would have seen that it had very little to do with Jews. Instead, it had very much to do with the messy truth about how Mohammadan rule actually operated in Spain in contrast to the popular myth of the “Andalusian Paradise”, which is one of several myths Mohammedans rely on to portray themselves as victims.

To insinuate that because someone points out that common thnking about The Inquisition is wrong, or that because some makes the historically accurate point that virtually every people has been victimized and has also victimized, he must somehow deny the holocaust is a smear of the rankest kind. You might have asked my views on the holocaust or Israel if you actually cared about anything other than maintaining the psychological rents that you apparently derive from thinking of yourself as a victim. And, no, I am not saying that Jews haven’t been victims, so don’t bother posting that sort of tripe.


61 posted on 07/11/2011 7:52:24 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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