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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (3418)	10/22/2000 6:58:14 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

You really are a racist. You lump Christians all together in one group Not at all- I merely call all Christians Christians- I believe I even made reference to Christian infighting, and Christian on Christian persecution. I will even be happy to include the persecution of Catholics in this country- who some view as Christians and some don't. I would never say all Christians are the same- since I am well aware of the multitude of permutations that Christianity takes in this country and in other countries. and then come to the remarkable conclusion all Jews are of one mind and soul Where on EARTH did I ever say all Jews were of one mind and soul? Well, that's easy- I didn't say it- you made it up. Although, since what I said is RIGHT here, on the record, I can't see why you were so stupid as to say I said something I clearly didn't say. Go figure. I merely said they'd been persecuted- which they have. I can find you a great deal written on this persecution- since it was common to have covenants on property that required the owners not to sell to Jews, and country clubs- for example- to have charters forbidding the admittance of Jews. All this is available in the public record. This has nothing to do with the diversity of the Jewish population in this country. The persecution was never contingent on whether the Jewish person in question was reformed, orthodox, conservative, or even practicing. So there was no need to address the vast cultural differences in the Jewish community- although I would be happy to discuss the vibrant Jewish community in the United States, although I wouldn't want to do it with you- since you make things up. There are as many different Jewish sects as different branches of the Catholic church.And this has what relevance to Jewish persecution? There are more variations among the Chinese people including language than what is found in western European culture.And this is some excuse for the persecution and discrimination the Chinese faced? I do not believe the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 made any distinctions about what "variation" a Chinese person was. Simply being Chinese was enough. You talk about black persecution but what about the thousands of blacks that die at the hands of blacks every year in America?And what about the thousands of whites that die at the hands of whites? Equally irrelevant. The fact that there is a great deal of OTHER violence and maliciousness unrelated to persecution and discrimination does not make persecution and discrimination disappear. I've no idea what point you were attempting to make- but whatever it was you made it very badly.