On Wednesday, June 19, 2002, at 10:16 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> At 10:33 AM 6/19/2002 +0200, Tahir wrote:
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>> Tahir: Oh yeah, I forgot, popular prejudice in the West is really
>> against the state of Israel. How could we have been so blind not to
>> see that?
>
> I do not think it is anti-semitism - although there is strong
> anti-semitic undercurrent in the discussions on the issue. I can see
> that, for example, in the discussion lists attached to the news on
> yahoo.com (which I monitor from time to time to get a sense of what
> public sentiments are).
i wonder what kind of sample wojtek thinks he's getting on the yahoo boards.
and i admit i also wonder if carroll thinks these yahoo boards are more indicative of "public sentiments" or the pulse of popular culture than television. <eg> (as they say)
j