It seemed to me that she was quoting approvingly--there was not the
slightest indication to the contrary. In a case like this it would behoove
one to make clear if one were not.
Sorry about the gender slip.
Mark
At 09:57 PM 9/27/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I think we all have to be real careful on these topics--to be clear
>ourselves and to read everyone else with the benefit of the doubt. I
>realized that Sevanthi was quoting someone else, so I didn't read any
>anti-Semitism into _her_ post, but, at the same time, she should have given
>the source there along with the quoted extract so as to avoid Mark's
>understandable misapprehension about whose words they were.
>
>I'm all too aware of my own hypersensitivities here, let me hasten to add,
>and if I seem too preachy in preaching care and mutual generosity, it's
>because of how I felt over some of yesterday's responses to my Koran-quoting
>post. We are all at the mercy of our own prejudices, conscious and
>unconscious, so please let's try to rise above, rise above--
>
>Candice
>
>
>
>Mark wrote:
>
>>> Probably pointless, altho I'm always wary of anything that could be
read as
>>> "blame the jews." See the very slightly veiled antisemitism of Sevanthi
>>> Ragunathan's post proposing a causal connection between the Bronze and
Iron
>>> Age accounts of warfare in the Old Testament and the savagery of the
modern
>>> Israeli state: "This tradition in treating enemies, starting with
Moses, is
>>> well preserved in the Gush Emunim, Shamir, Netanyahu, and Rabin (who
>>> several years ago as Defense Minister authorized the Isaeli forces to
>>> enter Palestinian homes and 'break bones.')"
>
>Sevanthi wrote:
>
>> <yawn> Pointless indeed, but why should that stop you? While I'm
>> oh-so-sure that you are wary of anything that could read as "blame the
>> Jews", the "lightly veiled anti-semeticism" of the proposal was not
mine, to
>> say the least.
>>
>> You know, if you'd simply clicked the links, particularly the second, you
>> could have saved me the trouble of remarking on your stupidity.
>
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