I don't know what gender slip you're apologizing for, Mark, but I do take
Sevanthi's point that the very name of Israel Shahak in that context would
strongly signal against anti-Semitism. Nevertheless, all quotes in message
text should be clearly sourced in the message itself, not left to the reader
to find via a link.
Can we all agree on that as standard practice--a practical measure which
could make the crucial difference to how we read one another on these
sensitive topics and during these fraught times?
Thanks,
Candice
> 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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