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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (3)	10/15/2001 1:34:06 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 282

I've thought about whether to respond to your post and what to say. The answers are Yes and here it is: "Howbeit no man spake of him(Jesus) openly for fear of the Jews. That's from your profile. You are an anti-Semite. I think even you would admit that. You might add "Yes, but ..." and give what you consider adequate and rational reasons that justify your position, but the fact remains: You are an anti-Semite. Your position has been quite unpopular (unacceptable, actually) ever since the Holocaust. As I remember, you deny there ever was such a thing. I know hundreds of Jews. (No, I'm not Jewish.) Some of them are elderly. And some of those claim to have been through the Holocaust. Now maybe they're lying. Except that my knowledge of them and their character tells me they're not. Something else about all those Jews I know: They're people. You cut them, they bleed. You smile at them, they smile back. If you treat them decently, they treat you decently. Some are rich. Some are poor. Most, like most American non-Jews, are in between. Some are quite smart, some not very, most about average. They do put more than average emphasis on material success. And on education. They look at the second as being the key to the first. The ones I know who are unusually well off didn't start out that way. They put in years of hard work and dedication to get there. I see no problem with their having wealth. This is the way a capitalist system is supposed to work. So what's the problem? Why aren't these people good Americans we should be proud of? You don't want "honors" like this? Message 16501676 Then don't demonize millions of Americans.