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From: clong@topaz.rutgers.edu (Chris Long)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,news.misc,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anti-Semite witch hunt
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Date: 8 Dec 88 08:16:50 GMT
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In article <1017@lzfme.att.com>, B.SCHWARTZ writes:
> >In article  I wrote:

> >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.

I stand for free speech; now we know where YOU stand, Betsy.  Do you
campaign to get books banned from your local library also?

> 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.

Of course anti-Semitism is an evil; I simply feel that J Random Luser
is entitled to whatever opinions he/she wants - no matter how stupid
and loathsome, like anti-Semitism, those opinions may be.  BTW, Betsy,
I don't tolerate it (and any other kind of bigotry) at all.  I have an
interesting story to tell along these lines : while I was in one of the
local student centers I was approached by a person who started to inform
me exactly what he thought of foreign students.  Thinking that he was a
psychology graduate student working on some kind of experiment (with us
poor students as the guinea pigs), I told him to buzz off.  As he
persisted it became clear that he really was serious.  At this point
I informed him that unless he took himself and his opinions elsewhere
his legs were in serious jeopardy of undergoing spontaneous multiple
fractures (I am a rather large fellow) - he decided to scat at that
point.  Yes Betsy, bigotry is still alive (this incident took place
only *weeks* ago).  How do we combat it?  I believe this is the point
we disagree on.

> I still believe that it is hurtful and evil.

No kidding, Sherlock.
-- 
Chris Long

"The proofs are so obvious that they can be left to the reader."
Lars V. Ahlfors, _Complex Analysis_