I did read the whole thread, Robomatic. I guess there was one comment of Little Hawk's that touched on the same issue. The story as related to me wasn't in the form of a folk tale, as far as I could tell. Having taught in college, I was aware of the potential danger of being blackmailed by students on all of the levels that I referred to. I saw a teacher's life nearly destroyed in my son's High School because one of his female students charged that he had touched her in a lewd. I could give his name, as he was one of my son's teachers, but I wouldn't see any sense in it. I don't know whether the charge was true, or not. I think it would be hard to be sure unless you'd been there, or the teacher or student had a history of similar actions.

I'm not denying antisemitism, or racial prejudice, or any kind of prejudice. The fact that some people use it to their advantage doesn't in any way diminish the ugliness of prejudice of any kind.

Jerry