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To: Sherman Logan
This man is an over-sensitive idiot. My father used this expression occasionally, not because of any intent to be offensive, or for that matter because of any anti-semitic animus, but because it was a common expression when he was growing up. He told me he was actually an adult before he realized that there was a connection between the verb "to jew" and the Jewish people.

The only thing worse than being a racist, is denying that one is a racist. You do not define someone by race. That it was a "common expression" is no excuse for using it. Are we to allow racist comments to become "common"?

The Nazis would also say that I was a "over-sensitive idiot". Try using this racist expression to someone wearing an Israel Defense Forces uniform.
Watch the words you use in everyday conversation and delete those words which offend or discriminate.

Educate people not to use hate speech!

39 posted on 05/22/2014 6:16:49 AM PDT by IsraelBeach
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To: IsraelBeach
The only thing worse than being a racist, is denying that one is a racist.

Being a racist, defined by you as occasionally using a racially-originating term without malicious intent, is the absolute worse thing a person can do, except of course for denying that one is a racist.

Really?

My Dad, occasionally using such a term without ill intent, was "worse than" a child molester, a mass murderer or a rapist? Do you really care to stick to your guns that being "a racist," especially by the very mild definition you insist on, is the very worst thing a person can be?

If so, perhaps you'd care to explain this remarkable assertion?

40 posted on 05/22/2014 6:33:53 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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