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To: A. Pole
You just need to relax. What, you took it personally that I asked you if there is anti-semitism in Poland? Did I ask YOU if you were racist?
12 posted on 11/17/2005 8:01:39 PM PST by Sam Gamgee (I hate hippies - Eric Cartman)
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To: Sam Gamgee
What, you took it personally that I asked you if there is anti-semitism in Poland?

Why do you ask such question if you know very well that in EVERY country there are people who hate others?

The original nasty passage from the article is:

"this blood-soaked land, where Jews had been so ruthlessly hunted down and killed by their former neighbors and friends"

In EVERY nation there will be people who will collaborate with the oppressors and who will be traitors. It ALSO applies to the Jews who had many collaborators among themselves too.

But this passage does not express this universal human condition - it rather project the evil on the Poles and makes them into scapegoats.

14 posted on 11/17/2005 8:11:44 PM PST by A. Pole (Lord Palmerston: "Nations had no permanent enemies or allies only permanent interests")
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To: Sam Gamgee
Before you pick on Poles and other East Europeans, and before you think that you or your country would pass the test of foreign occupation better, heed the warning of Solzhenitsyn who said in his "controversial" Harvard address (referring to 1977 riots in New York):

"[...]There are meaningful warnings that history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.[...]"

15 posted on 11/17/2005 8:22:52 PM PST by A. Pole (Lord Palmerston: "Nations had no permanent enemies or allies only permanent interests")
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