Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!rabbit!jj From: jj@rabbit.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Wingate's sense of humor-Rosen's lack of perspective Message-ID: <3306@rabbit.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 09:33:39 EST Article-I.D.: rabbit.3306 Posted: Thu Nov 29 09:33:39 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 06:48:45 EST References: <16436@lanl.ARPA> <45@mit-athena.ARPA> <1357@umcp-cs.UUCP>, <287@pyuxd.UUCP> Organization: New Jersey State Farm for the Terminally Bewildered Lines: 34 Well, I'm not going to defend the original "Wingate" article, and I don't even recall reading it (I suspect it was in one of those worthless newsgroups that someone put a ! by in my .newsrc...:-), but I DO object to Rosen's apparant (this is how it looks, Rich, in the stuff you just wrote) hatred for anyone who even mentions the concept, repugnant as it is, of "jew-baiting". You see, Rich, I just mentioned it, and I don't do it, do I?I don't know what Wingate said. I do know that he's said that he feels that he said it poorly, and that he regrets RLR (and others) interpretation of what he said. Rich, on the other hand, is calling him a deliberate liar (by making comments that are utterly meaningless, regarding living with/near people of the Jewish faith, etc and discussing other derogitory terms that he would "learn"). Now, I know that Rich has never made a mistake, so I guess he's entitled to keep beating up on Wingate, even after Wingate has explicitly apologized. Hmmm, I wonder what the Talmud has to say about perfect people... (Do I really NEED to put a sarcasm indicator here?) Lest someone be concerned that I didn't read Wingate's article, and send me it, let me be clear. I DON'T WANT TO SEE IT. I want to see peace, tolerance, and a bit of humanity. -- ARE TEDDY BEARS SMALL, FLIGHTLESS, AQUATIC SEABIRDS? "If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets in the sea." (allegra,ihnp4,ulysses)!alice!jj