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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The Pot and the Kettle
Message-ID: <754@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 14:16:38 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 16 14:16:38 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 06:39:58 EDT
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In article <39000006@ISM780B.UUCP> jim@ISM780B.UUCP writes:
> 
> >     I tell you what, Good People---the Jewish Defense League and its smaller
> >cohort, the Jewish Defense Organization, are two of the best allies that the
> >Radical Right ever had.  They make it very, very easy for us to present our
> >case.
> >
> >     --Don Black
> 
> The JDL and the JDO *are* part of the radical right.  I dare you to call any
> JDL'er a leftist to his face.  When it comes to red baiting and racism,
> they are in complete agreement with you.  Like you, they lump everyone
> who disagrees with them together.  Like you, their righteousness blinds them.
> The only thing they have to do with jews on the left is that they are jewish.
> That you identify the political position of people based on their religion
> illustrates your foolish prejudice.
> 
> -- Jim Balter (ima!jim)

A resounding refutation, worthy of resounding applause!  Damn, I wish I had
said it.

I rarely praise notes except by mail, but I am impressed by this clear
solution of condemning both disliked groups by the same criteria, rather
than appearing to appease one by condemning the other while trying not
to besmirch innocents.
-- 

Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh