Posted by SLS on December 4, 2012, at 6:57:31
In reply to Re: Lou's reply-atisemitism defined here, posted by Willful on November 26, 2012, at 10:30:45
Hi Willful.
Yes. This is precisely the point I was trying to make. You explained it much better than I did.
- Scott---------------------------------
> I'll respond with my logic about Scott's post, and the first of the posts that you cited.
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> 1. Scott seems to be saying that you can be hurt by statements that are not anti-semitic, and be Jewish..
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> That is, not all statements that hurt someone Jewish are anti-semitic. Some are criticisms about other things.
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> Example: for example, a teacher could say a paper of mine wasn't good, when I was in school-- and I could have been hurt by it. That would be a hurtful statement, that has nothing to do with my being Jewish. ~~ Therefore it would not be anti-semitic. ~~
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> -~~Only if the statement attacks Jews or Jewishness FOR their Jewishness, is it anti-semitic. ~~
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> 2. About the first link you gave:
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> Bob is saying that anti-semitic posts will be treated in the same way that other uncivil posts are treated.
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> He's not saying that any post that's uncivil toward someone Jewish is therefore anti-semitic.
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> a. Anti-semitic posts are a class of uncivil posts;
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> b. Bob does not mean that all uncivil posts to any Jewish person are, by being to a Jewish person, anti-semitic.
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> Does that make sense?
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Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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