I'd like to clarify. When I said,
>And I'm not putting myself on a high horse here, because I'll sadly
>admit: "Killer Jews" is for me, at first, intuitve blush, somehow
>less viscerally shocking than "killer Arabs." That bugs me.
I meant to compare my reactions to such phrases being used in
the hypothetical, but more specific, case of poems responding to
the current crisis. In other words, I was very bothered by what Doug
Clark wrote, but I no doubt would have been even *more* bothered
by a pro-Israel poem containing a like phrase about "Arabs." This
difference is related to my political sympathies and emotions vis a
vis the oppression of the Palestinian people, obviously. But there
shouldn't be a difference in feeling whatsoever in matters of this
kind.
Kent
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