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To: rmlew
1. Have you ever posted anything nice about Jews on FR?

Since you can't have possibly read everything I've ever written, you'll have to take my word for it that I have. Except that I don't go out of my way to do so; pandering to politically-correct sentiment has never been my long suit.

2. The ADL is an out of touch institution. They are acting against the interest of Jews in America here.

You think so, and I think so, but I know first-hand how my own Jewish friends and acquaintances think, and I have always found it a bizarre exercise in cognitive dissonance.

3. Your response is type of BS that gives them ammo.

If you know nothing about me at all, surely you've learned that stirring the ant-pile and watching the ants run around mindlessly is kind of fun for me.

57 posted on 06/28/2002 4:56:07 AM PDT by Illbay
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To: Illbay
Think this is petty and mean-spirited? Check out what Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) did yesterday:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/707506/posts?page=10#10

The hypocrisy will knock you over.

63 posted on 06/28/2002 5:37:53 AM PDT by LarryLied
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To: Illbay
I wrote:
"1. Have you ever posted anything nice about Jews on FR?
Illbay responded:
Since you can't have possibly read everything I've ever written, you'll have to take my word for it that I have. Except that I don't go out of my way to do so; pandering to politically-correct sentiment has never been my long suit.
There is a difference between pandering and not attacking. The ADL is taking a position contrary to the religious interests of Jews. You use this as an opportunity to call Jews leftists.
Why?

"2. The ADL is an out of touch institution. They are acting against the interest of Jews in America here."

You think so, and I think so, but I know first-hand how my own Jewish friends and acquaintances think, and I have always found it a bizarre exercise in cognitive dissonance.

Ask them what they consider more threatening to Jews in America:
a. The overwhelming ignorance most Jewish children have of their faith, a factor in the 60% intermarriage rate
b. Christians passing on their faith to their children.
c. The prospect of Jews being seen as an impediment to relgious education in America or worse as preventing the poor and minorities from getting educated?
The realization that leftist intolerance migh cause anti-Semetism and that they are hurting the poor might knock some sense into them.

If you know nothing about me at all, surely you've learned that stirring the ant-pile and watching the ants run around mindlessly is kind of fun for me.

Not everyone knows you.

99 posted on 06/28/2002 4:30:41 PM PDT by rmlew
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