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From: nmg@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Nancy M Gould)
Newsgroups: alt.flame,news.misc,soc.culture.jewish,rec.humor.d
Subject: Re: The Good, the Bad, and the Stupid (LONG)
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Date: 29 Nov 88 04:22:54 GMT
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In article <17505@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, rob@violet.berkeley.edu (Rob Robertson) writes:
> In article <1099@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> nmg@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Nancy M Gould) writes:
> >>I have been wading thru megabytes of argument re:  ethnic/racial
> >>discrimination and/or slurs.  Seems that only the Jewish and Black
> >>(with strong emphasis on the former) voices are crying out the 
> >>loudest.
> 
> >Probably because the Jews and the Blacks have been discriminated
> >against more than any other ethnic groups in this country.
> 
> Huh?  The people who are discriminated the most, are those that look
> "different".  I'd put Blacks, Orientals, Indians, Native Americans and
> Hispanics way up there.
> 
> Also remember that in 1942, a hundred thousand Japanese were interned
> for the duration of WWWII, all because they were of Japanese heritage.
> No such thing happened to German Americans or Italian Americans.




Let me clarify my position.  I'm sorry I left out American Indians,
Hispanics, Japanese, etc.  The reason I only mentioned Jews and
Blacks was because those were the two ethnic groups that the
original poster referred too.  Certainly, there have been other
ethnic groups that were discriminated against every bit as bad as
the Jews and Blacks.  But the ones she mentioned (Italians and Russians)
don't fit that category.

I thought it was interesting that the poster mentioned Russians
because most Russian Americans are in fact Russian JEWISH
Americans.  Many Russian Jewish Americans, when asked their nationality,
will reply "Russian" because they are afraid of anti-Semitism.
I know that in my childhood, nobody ever called me a "dirty Russian".
I have, however, been called a "dirty Jew".

I think we can pretty safely say that ethnic groups of Asian
and African origin are more discriminated against than those
of Western European origin.




-- 
"When the writer becomes the center of his attention, he becomes a nudnik.
And a nudnik who believes he's profound is even worse than just a plain
nudnik."                         --Isaac Bashevis Singer  (1904-   )
Nancy M. Gould