Posted by Lou Pilder on October 15, 2014, at 6:50:02
In reply to Re: Lou's reply-eyedoent » Lou Pilder, posted by Phillipa on October 14, 2014, at 18:29:49
> Oh Lou stop. I know you mean well. But I do feel you need to take care of you first. Maybe you take meds for your heart, blood pressure, cholestrol are they going to destroy you and cause others to be antisemetic? Phillipa
P,
You wrote,[...Lou stop...you need to take care of you first...are drugs for heart and blood pressure going to destroy you and cause others to be anti-Semitic?...].
The subject drugs here are those that are mind-altering chemicals that are different from the medicines that you have listed as for heart and blood pressure and such. As to them causing others to be anti-Semitic, since they do not induce a mind-altered state as the psychoactive drugs do, I do not think that people taking blood pressure medicines could cause them to be anti-Semitic. But it is much more than that. You see, it is not the drug that causes people to be anti-Semitic. Antisemitism as hatred toward the Jews is generally instilled into people by propaganda directed to dehumanize Jews and use them as scapegoats for the real or imagined ills of a community. The propaganda usually portrays Jews falsely and accuses them. The propaganda generally used to taunt and mock and ridicule Jews is to falsely depict them as inferior people with an inferior religion that bars them from entering heaven. By a community allowing anti-Semitic propaganda to be seen as supportive, a Jew in the community could have their respect and regard and confidence decreased and have hostile and disagreeable feelings and opinions induced into the members of the community to be against the Jew, which is a generally accepted definition of what anti-Semitism is. It is this {against the Jew} propaganda if allowed to be seen as supportive in a community, that can cause anti-Semitism in the minds of the community members. And when those members are under the influence of mind-altering drugs, the suggestion by the community leaders that it will be good for the community as a whole for anti-Semitic propaganda to be seen as supportive, could foster, create and develop anti-Semitic hate in the minds of the community members. For they could think (falsely) that anti-Semitism is supportive and it will be good for the community as a whole in the leader's thinking to allow the anti-Semitic propaganda to be seen as supportive. It's not the drug, it's the motion.
Lou
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