[WikiEN-l] Vicki's Question

[Stevertigo]

> >  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