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• Tuesday, January 6, 2009 11:51 AM

  Helping to spread Anti-Semitism, Part I

  Xanthro and Renegade Iconoclast,

  If you think you are helping, you are not. If you think your bullying, slandering, name calling, and emotional belly-aching is helping the world to see Israel and Jewry as peaceful, fair, and good, you are doing the exact opposite.

  First of all, I am merely expressing an opinion, a feeling, shared by many I have spoken to, who are either too afraid or too ashamed to say the same things. Except other Jews.

  They are afraid because of bullies like yourselves, Abe Foxman, and Alan Dershowitz. People who destroy other people's reputations and lives for simply being honest, and open, and wanting to have an open, peaceful discussion.

  They are ashamed because of the fallacious arguments that they have been taught as to what constitutes racism and hatred

  When I said "in my opinion, most of the Jews I have seen in the past 20 years are racist and elitist," that does not constitute racism, and it does not constitute hate. It is merely my world experience. Perhaps I live in a small town, and live next to assholes who are Jewish. Perhaps I only watch right-wing televisions and listen to right-wing radio.

  A person's experience cannot be racist. A person's experience cannot be hate. Racism and hatred are a projection, an action, a thought process that is initiated, constructed, and acted upon in the real world. A person's experience is none of those.

  If you went to another planet of green and purple people, had dinner at a restaurant, and a group of purple people assaulted you and your family, and then came to back to Earth, and you said "Most of the purple people I met were violent and mean," are you racist?

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