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From: oliver@unc.cs.unc.edu (Bill Oliver)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,news.misc,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anti-Semite witch hunt
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Date: 8 Dec 88 23:09:09 GMT
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In article <1017@lzfme.att.com> brs@lzfme.UUCP (xmrj5-B.SCHWARTZ) writes:
>>In article  clong@topaz.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) writes:
>>If if comes down to it, I'd rather stand with the anti-Semites than
>>with the witch-hunters and the censors.  Don't people ever learn? 
>
>Well, Chris, now we know where YOU stand.
>
>It'd be interesting to know how many others would rather stand
>with anti-Semites.   It proves the point that many on the net don't view
>anti-semitism as an evil.  They feel it should be tolerated.
>

Oh, bullshit.  The best defense against folk saying untruth about any
group -- religious, ethnic, whatever is not to bring forth the
Inquisition and start burning offensive books and censoring offensive
people.  It is to state the truth in response.  Every time the neo-nazis
march in some city, and every time they publish one of their little
leaflets or magazines, they make themselves look like idiots.

I suppose that because I am against the kind of censorship that has
been used to silence Mr. Templeton, and because I extend my distaste
of censorship generally that means that I, as a member of the ACLU,
also stand with the anti-Semites against the witch-hunters.

If that makes me an anti-Semite, that also makes me both a 
communist and a fascist and a capitalist and a libertaritan.
It makes me anti-Semitic and anti-anti-Semitic.  It makes me
anti-everything and pro-everything in your book.  I hope you
have enough room in your blacklist to keep track of all the
appropriate labels you would give me.
 

>I still believe that it is hurtful and evil.

Not nearly as hurtful as thought control or as evil as central
control of what people can say and print.

Bill Oliver