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To: thoughtomator
Can you give me the data on that and how I can prove it independently?

Sorry, I went back and checked through all the threads that I had posted comments on, and it wasn't in them. It must have been on a thread that I just read and didn't posted anything. There have been so many Passion threads that I'm not sure how I could find it at this point. Wish I could be more help.

But I recall for certain that it was a letter to the editor of the LA Times from a teacher, and the student supposedly came in and said "Now I hate all Jews." Someone on the thread did a google search or something and found a teacher with the same name who taught at a very ritzy school with a predominantly Jewish student body.

47 posted on 03/04/2004 8:55:34 PM PST by Maximilian
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To: Maximilian
Okay I have figured this much out:

Anna Paikow works as a teacher in Los Angeles, according to the article. A simple Google cross reference will bring you to here, showing her to be associated with this high school, whose website confirms the truth of her claim to be a teacher in Los Angeles.

A simple review of the contents of the site confirm that there are quite a number of Jewish names among the alumni and faculty. "Predominately" cannot be proven.

But the high school is a public high school. Thus the teacher is a unionized public employee (I think). Given that, the story has to survive the very high probability that the event in the letter was explicitly fabricated for Leftist propoganda purposes (denigrating both Christianity and Judaism at the same time).

I don't think there's any way to prove she is lying. But a commonsense analysis of the factors involved make it improbable in the extreme for her story to be true in total: The school is familiar with Jewish people, having Jews among its staff and faculty. Thus the alleged student alleged to have said the alleged quote did not have her first impressions of Jews from this movie.

Having seen the movie, and also seen stuff like PLO propoganda, I can say that there is no way a person is going to come out of this movie hating Jews unless they have been pre-conditioned to do so. No way at all. It simply doesn't contain the message "All Jews are bad". Being a Jew myself, I think I'm a fair judge of that.

On the other hand, you have stuff like the PLO puts out, which is clearly and explicitly outright incitement to genocide, yet Arafat is protected by the same types of folks who are bitching about this movie.

So I'd say we have to conclude that there is a vanishingly small but not zero possibility the letter in the LA Times is true, and a tremendously large probability it is a simple socialist smear of the type we are very familiar with (e.g. "Bush was AWOL!" - never had any substance, but millions of people now believe it; now we have "Mel Gibson hates Jews"). FWIW

54 posted on 03/04/2004 9:32:48 PM PST by thoughtomator (Political Correctness is fascism)
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