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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (15144)	6/7/2002 6:37:14 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Len: What do you call Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Isn't that a holocaust of a worse kind. The why do we keep harping on the Jewish thing as a holocaust. As I said, the Japanese do not shout from rooftops on what happened to them during WWII. I dare any one to come and say that they, the Japanese got what they deserved during WWII.

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (15144)	6/7/2002 7:48:26 PM
From: chalu2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

>>The term "anti-semite is fully owned and copyrighted by Jews. Much effort and monies have been spent to market the connection as if it were an accurate term.<< What's inaccurate about it? That's the term that has been used for many decades, and I doubt it had much of a "marketing budget" in its first decades of use. You seem to have a problem with the concept that English/European words & nomenclatures often stray from their narrow etymological roots. It doesn't make the word "inaccurate." Is a brontosaurus a dinosaur? Well, yes, but the term dinosaur is "inaccurate." It means "terrifying lizards" because early paleontologists made a mistake about how dinosaurs walked. They are not lizards at all. The Pennsylvania Dutch aren't Dutch, and never were. They are of Swiss/German descent. ("Deutsch" in German sounded like Dutch to early settlers seeking to identify this group). Palestinians can only refer to people from a geographic area, as there is no distinct Palestinian language, religion or culture which would differentiate them from other Arabs. Indeed, their leader, the ur-Palestinian Abu Ammar (a/k/a Arafat) is an Egyptian, born in Cairo. As are many of their leaders and spokesmen (e.g. the Egyptian Edward Said). But yet, we hear the following inaccuracy all the time--"Palestinian people." That's about as accurate as referring to "the Minnesota people" or "the New Hampshire people", and implying they are a separate ethnic group. While we're at it, what is an "Arab"?