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To: Lane3 who wrote (53186)	7/7/2004 11:27:44 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793738

Naturally, not to be outdone in the black and white department, the anti-PC crowd developed its own excesses and its own unreasonableness, but I don't know what you mean by "championing the use of serious racial slurs as counter to PC. Perhaps you could flesh that out for me. I was thinking of instances on my own campus in which racial and sexual slurs pasted on dorm room doors occurred. We had, at least once a year, some sort of beating of an openly gay male. The campus PC crowd found themselves in the awkward situation of defending these actions as permissible. If a campus wishes to foster an atmosphere of civility they are indefensible. These aren't instances of free speech in my book; they are instances of racial and/or sexual harassment. Does that help?

To: Lane3 who wrote (53186)	7/7/2004 6:57:10 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793738

Hi Karen, I would say, that 'Likudnik', of itself, is a slur, not general anti-Semitism, because accusing any US official of putting Israel's interests first (or any other country's) in front of the US is a serious accusation of official misconduct. If, however, you can substantiate a pattern of picking out just the Jewish officials and accusing only them of being 'Likudniks' (when many non-Jews promote the same policy, but don't get accused), then the old anti-Semitic tropes of judging the Jews by different, special standards and accusing the Jews of dual loyalty raise their heads. See the distinction?