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To: Lane3 who wrote (31419)	2/25/2004 3:41:54 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793708

If there's a plausible alternative and the speaker has no pattern of anti-semitism, then it's not anti-semitism no matter how the invested can connect the dots. That's the measure I've always used both professionally and personally. Even that is tricky. Sometimes you judge that the speaker is personally not an anti-semite, but is picking up ideas and expressions from his environment that are anti-semitic. Compare to someone from the South a few years ago who just picked up themes of, say, "shiftless darkies", maybe expressed in nicer language, without really meaning anything by it. Would you tell african-americans that they should not notice or react to such stuff, or call it bigotry?