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To: michael97123 who wrote (53185)	7/7/2004 11:12:46 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793729

It seems to me that you may be of the view that right wing nazi anti-semitism is bad because nazis are bad but when the left gets into the game what they say is to be forgiven or forgotten or minimized because their motivation is pristine? I just can't wait to hear what this has to do with left and right. Seems to me that we have victims and bigots. Their politics are irrelevant. Is this not about principle?

To: michael97123 who wrote (53185)	7/7/2004 11:22:18 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793729

It seems to me that you may be of the view that right wing nazi anti-semitism is bad because nazis are bad but when the left gets into the game what they say is to be forgiven or forgotten or minimized because their motivation is pristine? Fascism, at least of the German sort, has never fit comfortably in the right/left dichotomy for me. So I don't think of it as right wing anti-semitism against left wing innocence. There clearly was a great deal of anti-semitism in the Soviet Union. No one debates that. So, historically, if you wish to put German fascism on the right, it has not been a respector of political positions. And I'm certain someone who knows the history of anti-semitism well could make the case that it is no respector of the French Revolution right/left distinctions.