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To: maceng2 who wrote (205263)11/16/2002 2:46:36 PM
From: GraceZ  Read Replies (2) of 436258
 
I know you are just trying to screw around with Joel baiting him with your references to "Jew" this or "Jew" that in your posts but let me tell you that when it comes to trying to prove a negative it's almost impossible. Just the fact that you would try makes you guilty. Ask anyone who's ever been accused of racism, anti-semitism or child molesting for that matter....once accused, the accusation lingers regardless of anything you say or do.

An old roommate of mine in college (who incidentally was Jewish) told me a story. In high school she went to a school which was predominantly white but had about a 15% black student population or African American as it were (if we're going to be politically correct here). She had a good friend who was black in sophomore year. One time they got to talking about racial prejudice and the friend asked her to be honest and tell her if she'd ever had any kind of racial prejudice against blacks. My friend, in attempt to be completely honest basically said, of course, she had at some point, it's not something she was proud of and she thought if everyone was honest they would all admit to some level of racial prejudice against someone from another group.

You can almost guess what happened next, although to my friend it was a complete surprise and her first lesson in what happens to people who are honest about such matters. The friend she made the remark to pretty much told all her friends that my friend was an admitted bigot. The label stuck with her until graduation no matter what she said in her own defense. The good news is that she never let that experience turn her into an actual bigot.
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