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To: Deep Digm who wrote (13870)	1/27/1998 4:18:00 PM
From: David A. Smallberg	Respond to of 18263

Oh, my, have I been misunderstood. Let me clear the air: (1) I agree that Dr. Singh is a gentleman and have never implied otherwise. (2) I definitely do encourage postings by longs, as I said in Message 2612909 (3) Explaining a possible origin of a belief does not imply the writer holds the belief. A question was asked: "Why do doctors think they are astute investors?" I presented a possible origin of that stereotype, qualified with phrases like "With no disrespect intended to any particular doctor" and careful qualifications like "some doctors" instead of "doctors" or "all doctors". I am therefore puzzled by your comment "Generalizations like yours are the foundation for other comments like; all blacks are lazy, all Jews are cheap, all Polish people are stupid, ..." The stereotype itself is not my belief, and if A's statement "Some X are Y" is the foundation for B's comment "All X are Y", then who is the bigot, A or B? As an example, does explaining the origin of the money-grubbing Jew stereotype make me an anti-Semite (or self-hating Jew, or whatever)? No. [The origin as I understand it involves the economics of medieval Europe, Christian prohibitions of the time against charging interest for money lent (modern Islam shares this), resentment of debtors against their creditors, and denial of certain legal rights to Jews.] > Dismissing his opinion based on your little anecdote, IMO , > is not only insulting, but may indicate that people with the > middle initial "A" are in fact, small minded bigots. If you can write this, you definitely misunderstood me. I hope I've clarified things.