Allow me instead of simply giving you a fish, teach you *how to fish, and ask you to figure it out: 1. Stevertigo incessantly quotes Chomsky, Einstein, Robert Zimmerman,.. thinks Rachmaninoff
surpassed
all composers, loved Shindler's List, and am waiting eagerly for
Occupation
101... Can you fish? -SV
No, you sanctimonious idiot, I cannot fish: I am sitting in front of a computer, after dark, and it's close to freezing out there next to the river. Nor do I
have
rod and reel. I can ask a simple question. You appear unable or unwilling to answer it.
Your
position on the US invasion of Iraq--if that's what you mean by
"Occupation
101"--has nothing to do with the matter.
No, Occupation 101 is about Israels occupation of Palestine: "Kosovo without TV cameras" as a good Ha'aretz reporter put it.
Don't be surprised if your repeated refusal to say that you aren't a
Jew-hater
makes people suspect that you are. (Sorry, Ed, I can't always be the least offensive person on the list.)
I havent "answered" your question mostly because the question is *insincere, *disingenous, *pointless, *ill-founded, and *slanderous in its own right, and deserves no justice by being responded to... Although.... I actually think that your directness makes you *less than offensive; because being direct is a good step toward sincere, and sincerity breeds truth. Since you *refuse to put 2 and 2 together, or simply cant bring yourself to believe that the answer is 4... I'll spell it out for you Vicki... I am not a racist.
I am not against Judaism, nor do I harbor generalized derogative opinions of Jews or any other ethnic group. I don't believe that anti-Jewish hatespeech has any basis other than xenophobic and economic anger. By my regular and cordial discourse and association with people who are no less Jewish than yourself, you should understand this, and you should know how offensive it is that you should say that I am a racist.
I am happy and glad that you are a direct and sincere person, Vicki, and clearly curious as to my humble views. You are a generally sweet person. Thank you for not here trying to make the stupid claim that anti-Semitism is a *special kind of discrimination, (distinct from racism; and deserving *special treatment). And thank you for not saying that anyone who disagrees with US-sponsored racist-Israeli apartheid is an anti-Semite. I hope this answers all your questions. -Sanctimonious, yet Uber-understanding, Steven