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From: carey@seismo.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: resistance to the Holocaust
Message-ID: <1282@seismo.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-May-84 13:10:35 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 10 13:10:35 1984
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Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
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Vladimir Lanin states:
> "The Jews were surrounded in a sea of hate and indifference
>  into which they could not disappear and which would not help
>  them in an effort to resist."

I have a question about this statement that I am positive will
come across as very naive to some people, but I am young (if that 
makes any difference) and I have never understood the reasoning
behind the statement given by Vladimir Lanin.

My question is *why* has there always been (or seems to me to always
have been, at least as long as I have been alive) such hate and
prejudice directed at people of the Jewish religion or faith or
whatever it is referred to as?  I can't think of any reason behind
the hate, etc. Is it something like the persecution that the Christians
went through at the hands of the Romans? Maybe I should read some books
on this, but I did want to pose the question to the net to maybe get
some answers from people who are Jewish and could give me some first
hand information about it.

I am not Jewish and I have never understood the prejudice against
Jewish people, or black people or any people for that matter. The
only group of people that I guess I really don't like or can even
compare prejudice to *maybe*, is these dumb cab drivers in this city!
I swear, every day I drive in this city, I take my life in my hands. We
are talking about idiotic cab drivers who make left hand turns from the
right lane and NEVER use a turn signal! Ha-ha, just thought I would 
lighten it up a bit...

Thank you to anyone who cares to post or mail an answer to my
question. 

Marie Carey
...seismo!carey