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From: bga@raspail.UUCP (Bruce Albrecht)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: How Many (x) Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?
Keywords: sensitivity, sensationalism
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Date: 7 Dec 88 16:11:44 GMT
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In article <44972@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, engelson@cs.yale.edu (Sean Philip Engelson) writes:
> The truly unique facet of Jewish persecution is the fact that it
> ALWAYS happens.  There is no country in history which has had a
> significant, sustained Jewish presence which has not had widespread
> anti-semitism.  This is not to say that it was always sanctioned by
> the government, but that's faint comfort to its victims.

I find it hard to believe that it is unique.  I think you'd be hard pressed to
find any religious or ethnic minority that hasn't received widespread 
persecution in any country that has a significant, sustained, (x) presence.
There are always people in the majority culture that feel threatened by the 
existence of minority cultures that do not attempt to fully integrate into 
the majority.  To claim that this is problem is unique to the Jews only 
belittles of the problems of bigotry and discrimination towards all minority 
groups.