[lbo-talk] Chechnya, Darfur, and Jewish Activism

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 5/6/06, Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yoshie: >
> I've taken no less care of not appearing to criticize Jews as such
> than I've taken care of not appearing to criticize Arabs as such,
> Muslims as such, whites as such, Americans as such, etc.  It would be
> odd to take more care than usual in the Jewish case.<
>
> my point was it's useful to know the character of the power structure
> (given today's balance of powers) and to know that even _appearing_ to
> be anti-Semitic will bring down a sh*t-storm of foolishness.

I'm not about to let professional "anti-anti-semites" decide what is
or isn't anti-Semitism and censor myself accordingly.  I don't give a
damn about "a sh*t-storm of foolishness."  Fools shouldn't be allowed
to set the agenda -- they only show themselves to be incapable of
knowing -- or indifferent to having -- friends of Jews and all others
who are in any way subject to discrimination, when they try to pass
off friends as enemies.

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Yoshie
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