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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (64756)1/12/2000 8:06:00 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (3) of 67261
 
I want to clarify something: I think that management overreacted,and that sending someone to a shrink in such circumstances is unseemly. But I also think that comparing it to serious matters like actual psychiatric confinement in the Soviet Union is over the top, and that one should not make much of it. African-Americans and Jews have reason to ask for more stringent decorum in public discourse. The virulence of racism was pervasive and given institutional support until the 1960s, and the last survivors of slavery only recently died. The Holocaust destroyed the center of world Jewry in Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine, although its barbarity extended further, and showed the way in which anti- semitism could metastasize. Had the Zionists not already established a strong presence in Palestine, and had there not already been a large emigration to the United States, the Jews would have been effectively destroyed as a people. In instances like this, it is not merely PC to require that expressions of contempt and hostility not be shrugged off. One of the things that helped to make me a conservative was that the ACLU could not see that although the Nazis had a right to public assembly in the Chicago area, they did not have a right to harass a bunch of Holocaust survivors in the town of Skokie, merely for publicity. There were much less confrontational ways of making reasonable accommodation for their first amendment rights. Conservatives should know better than to defend an "anything goes" attitude.......
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