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Subject: Re: Historical Persecution of Jews
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Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 14:34:42 EST
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Frank Silberman is on to some good insights concerning historical
persecution of Jews.  In particular, I would like to pick up on
his notion of nonconformity as a proximal cause of persecution.

Conformity is the unthinking imitation of the currently popular
modes of behavior.  The creative intellectual is one who asks,
Why or Why Not questions.  To be sure, the Jews have a long tradition
of intellectual development.  But Gentile intellectuals have also
suffered similar persecution.  Don Quixote is an apt example here.

--Barry Kort  ...ihnp4!hounx!kort

"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could
  propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others."

					--Thomas Jefferson