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Thread #140399 Message #3236847
Posted By: MGM·Lion
10-Oct-11 - 01:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: Palestine
Subject: RE: BS: Palestine
Can't go over all that about Keith just quoting someone else without endorsing, but simply taking their word for it as better informed again. Not really related to this point anyhow. I don't spend more time than can help thinking about the NF ~ so whatever may be their current avatar; and don't be evasive, eh?
Even if such people as you mention would think ill of you "no matter what you said", that doesn't alter the fact that some things are more seemly to say than others. Just as comparison of some sections of Jewish thought with "Nazism" is for obvious reasons going to be so provocative to any Jew that it would be IMO best avoided by any person who makes pretension to good faith {surely you can see that ~ honest, now!}, so is the use of the word 'holocaust' which, even with out its cap-H, has acquired a particular and specialist overtone and syndrome of associations which make the motivation of its usage in such a context at least, let us say, highly equivocal; and surely best avoided?
Even if you don't care what all the putative detractors whose presence you hypothecate in the last sentence of your last response to me might think of you ~~ do you really not care what I think? I do think of myself as your friend, even when we may disagree as not infrequently happens; and would like to retain a favourable opinion of you, and of your views, and of your expression of such with some becoming moderation: and hope such might be mutual.
~Michael~