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To: Right Wing Professor
There is massive hostility in the Arab world towards the United States. That's a fact, not prejudice.

And Sobran's saying that there's a powerful Jewish contingent in American politics that uses its victim status to augment its power. He may be right or wrong about that assessment, but there's nothing "prejudicial" about making that claim.

My point, in other words, is that either certain statements are racist by their nature, or they're not racist by their nature. If they are, then they're racist no matter what specific group name you insert into the statements.

204 posted on 10/30/2003 3:30:56 PM PST by inquest ("Where else do gun owners have to go?" - Lee Atwater)
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To: inquest
My point, in other words, is that either certain statements are racist by their nature, or they're not racist by their nature. If they are, then they're racist no matter what specific group name you insert into the statements.

Two statements

A negligible number of Jews died in the holocaust; anyone who says otherwise has an axe to grind

A negligible number of Arabs died in the holocaust; anyone who says otherwise has an axe to grind

Are the two statements equivalent? Of course not; the first is false and marks you as a Holocaust-denier; the second is true. Similarly, Sobran's statements, which are rather hysterical with respect to Israel, might not be hysterical if applied, say to Saudi Arabia.

208 posted on 10/30/2003 3:42:31 PM PST by Right Wing Professor (Lord High Executioner to the Court of the Mikado)
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