It is in fact true that "the terror attack on the WTC by Muslims raised discussions of the posture of American Muslims to an acrid level." It did a good bit more -- it put a lot of them in jail. And one is not a racist swine for noting the facts.
Similarly, Cockburn was simply reporting what is the case when he wrote that "there are a number of stories [he gives examples] sloshing around the news now that have raised discussion of Israel and of the posture of American Jews to an acrid level." And he ran afoul of only the language cops.
I believe that Pradeep and I are suggesting that it shouldn't be different when it's the Jews. --CGE
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Brad DeLong wrote:
> Recall that Cockburn was mainlining the _Protocols of the Elders of Zion_:
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> >There are a number of stories sloshing around the news now
> >that have raised discussion of Israel and of the posture
> >of American Jews to an acrid level. The purveyor of anthrax
> >may have been a former government scientist of Jewish ethnic
> >extraction with a record of baiting a colleague of Arab origins,
> >acting with the intent to blame the anthrax on Muslim terrorists.
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> If anyone here wrote that the terror attack on the WTC by Muslims
> "raised discussions of the posture of American Muslims to an acrid
> level," I would be denouncing them as racist swine--and I don't think
> I would find any objections here.
>
> But somehow it does seem to be different when it's "the Jews"--and I
> think pradeep and C. G. Estabrook need to ask themselves why...
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