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Thread #25398   Message #299248
Posted By: GUEST,Gordon Gottleib
17-Sep-00 - 10:39 AM
Thread Name: Cont'd THOUGHTS, terms such as 'nazi'
Subject: To Little Hawk
To Little Hawk:

You claim that you are not anti-Semitic. However, in your postings, you have consistently incorporated the traditional language and ideas of anti-Semites, Nazis and neo-Nazis.

In your missive of 11:21 PM last night, you refer to the Jewish people as a "race." Referring to Jews as such is the language of racists. Most of the Jews of the world, including virtually all of those exterminated in the Nazi death camps during the Holocaust, are racially caucasian (white); they are of the same race as the Aryan Nazis. There are also racially black Jews; for example, the Falashas of Ethiopia. There are even small, continuing enclaves of Asian Jews in China.

In today's world, only anti-Semites refer to Jews as a "race." This is what allows American neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan to differentiate Jews from "white" people.

Your explanations of pre-war and war-period Naziism, that the Nazis "genuinely believed that the Jews had done terrible things to Germany," are taken directly from the revisionist histories now popular among anti-Semites who seek to justify the Holocaust.

If you use the langauge of the anti-Semites, you create the conditions for people to assume that you are one.

Sincerely,

Gordon Gottleib