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To: 1rudeboy; Cacique
I feel for you. Let me round out the appellations applied so far: Eskimo, Nazi, neocon, Trotskyite (Marxist-Leninist), Holocaust-denier, denier-funded-by-Nazis, etc.

I can't believe that some guy writing about a visit to Lithuania could spark such an abject outpouring of hatred towards Baltic peoples.
102 posted on 07/07/2003 8:26:22 AM PDT by stevejackson
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To: stevejackson; DPB101; Destro
What troubles me is this concept (and I give full credit to DPB101): how can someone be so vocal about Lithuanian Jews being murdered, having their property confiscated, etc., and limit his outrage to the Nazis?

There's a reason they are called crimes against humanity, because there is a greater moral-component to the atrocity, regardless of the individual criminal act. Our friend Destro would have us believe that the U.S. government, in its own self-interest, is now collaborating with it's "new" allies (now that's a laughable idea, E. Europe has been pro-U.S. practically forever) in order to sweep the Holocaust under the rug. Yet, with all his "marketing" expertise, by omission he implies that Soviet atrocities against the same Jews are not worthy of mention. Certainly there was any number of anti-Semitic Lithuanian collaborators in the Soviet régime that replaced the Nazi one. Certainly there have been any number of threads concerning the "warming" of relations between the U.S. and Russia. I would expect Destro, if he was consistent, to direct some of his "outrage" at the Russians (They're all Bolsheviks! They shipped Jews to the Gulag! The U.S. is sweeping it under the rug!). I am disappointed.

His neglect of the treatment suffered by the Jews at the hands of the Soviets suggests that Destro is still fighting the Cold War on the wrong side. More disturbing is the possibility that anti-Semitism itself doesn't trouble him very much. More important to him is to score points against what he perceives to be an "uppity" ethnic group or, gasp, those who he perceives to be "neo-conservative."

I used to think that racist attacks (and yes, I use the term deliberately) by people of Destro's ilk were primarily motivated by vengeance. I'm beginning to suspect that they are fighting a larger battle.

I need to start saving these "Lithuanians are Nazis" threads.

103 posted on 07/07/2003 9:50:20 AM PDT by 1rudeboy (I'm not Lithuanian! I'm an Eskimo!)
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