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From: creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
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Subject: Re: cancel <2606@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
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Date: Sat, 12-Sep-87 01:16:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 12 01:16:00 1987
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>/* Written  7:41 am  Sep 11, 1987 by blair@pt1 in silver:comp.sys.ibm.pc */
>In article <683@alliant.Alliant.COM> shtil@alliant.UUCP (Sofia Shtil) writes:
>>	Why is it that it seems sweeter to bash Israel then to bash
>>Soviet Union?  [...]
>>	Wake up, Jews!
>>There is no "them, Soviet Jews", it is "we, the Jewish People"!
>
>I give.  This must be connected with comp.ibm.pc somehow -- but it must be
>too early in the morning for me to figure it out.  What's the drift?

   Well, it's obvious to me that the author of this is a genius. Note the
subtle irony, the symbolism! Well, if you haven't figured it out yet, I'll
explain it to you. You see, we've been doing quite a bit of IBM-bashing here
on the net lately, even to the point of cruelty. The author is comparing IBM
to the Soviet Jews, and us of the net to the Soviet Union. Just as the USSR
persecutes its Jewry, so do we of the net persecute IBM. So you see, in the
author's eyes, we of the net are equally guilty as the Soviet Union. She's
right, you know. (Oh, I'm so ashamed.)
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Steve Creps on the VAX 8650 running Ultrix 2.0-1 at Indiana University.
	creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
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