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For one, post 979 isn't even from sfRummyGirl to you

Correct, my mistake, change 979 to 939.

No - it would put me "at risk" after having read the false reviews of said movie. Not one thing in the movie itself made me have any problem with any individual Jew. Reading Krauthammer's review, however, makes me believe that Krauthammer is a Christian-loathing bigot. Nice try at twisting cause and effect.

You make a distinction of no difference. You wrote that you just saw the movie and as a result of that viewing you have launched a bitter, hate-filled attack directed primarily against the movie's Jewish critics but also directed against me personally. You wrote you are tempted to Antisemitism now.

No, I wrote that I would be tempted toward anti-Semitism WERE IT NOT for Jews like Rabbi Lapin, Dennis Prager, Medved, and a good number of Jewish posters on this board who have acted with some sanity regarding this movie. It is because of them that the Jewish reaction to this movie has not been monolithic to the point that they would actually -merit- collective guilt. However, they -do- exist (albeit a minority), and that is why I am NOT tempted to be anti-Semitic, and I am grateful to them for it. If you read my original phrasing, I make that very plain.

Look - do me a favor. Listen very closely to the next things I'm going to say - because I want to see if you're even capable of perceiving what it is you're doing.

- Jews are saying that this movie will stir up violence against Jews, and as such are laying collective guilt on all Christians for actions that have never - EVER - happened in the United States. Jews have never been lynched in the U.S. Blacks have. Even Catholics have. But not Jews. So, this massive collective guilt trip is laid, continously for an entire year, on American Christians as Jew haters on absolutely no evidence that can relate to anyone living in this country.

- At the same time, a MAJORITY of Jews, EVEN IN CONSERVATIVE CIRCLES, are ranting that Christians are attempting to lay collective guilt on Jews, on zero evidence.

So, on the one hand, American Christians are accused of being collective bigots on absolutely no evidence - NOT EVEN HISTORICAL EVIDENCE. On the other hand, Jews are NOW, at present, at this very moment in time, with names and faces and everything, laying collective guilt on Christians.

What concerns you? Is the fact that Christians are being condemned as bigots on no evidence troubling you even slightly? Nope. What concerns you is that I am capable of perceiving MASSIVE bigotry on the part of MANY Jews that is happening RIGHT NOW.

You are making up your fears that American Christians will hold Jews accountable for historical sins out of thin air, and at the same time claiming that they are holding historical sins against -you-.

You are guilty of exactly what you are accusing Christians of.

It amazes me that you are 100%, completely blind to this. I saw you responding to posters with anger and loathing long before I posted on this thread. You're acting as if you were all nice and happy and getting along just great with everyone till I came along and started being a "Jew-hater". Bull. Even now, you are smearing Free Republic as an anti-Semitic hell hole, which I have seen -extremely- little evidence of. What I have seen here is -overwhelming- support of Israel and Jews in general (and I have always been one of those incredibly strong supporters, and that hasn't changed). And yet you claim that your Jewish friends would be dismayed at what they see on this board? If that's the case, then they're just as blind and determined to be bigots as you are.

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