Xref: utzoo soc.culture.jewish:8631 news.misc:2334 news.sysadmin:1874 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!paul.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!topaz.rutgers.edu!clong From: clong@topaz.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,news.misc,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Anti-Semite witch hunt Message-ID:Date: 8 Dec 88 08:16:50 GMT References: <49196@pyramid.pyramid.com> <401@hropus.UUCP> <1017@lzfme.att.com> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 40 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_