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From: jpdres10@usl-pc.usl.edu (Green Eric Lee)
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Subject: Re: How Many (x) Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?
Keywords: sensitivity, sensationalism
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Date: 11 Dec 88 00:34:55 GMT
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In message <44972@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, engelson@cs.yale.edu (Sean Philip Engelson) says:
>In article <568@redsox.UUCP>, campbell@redsox (Larry Campbell) writes:
>>The Jews do not have a monopoly on persecution.  They are in the unique
>>English settlers did much worse to the American Indians.  But it took longer
>>(300 years), finished less recently (1880 vs. 1945), and guess what -- we
>>*won*.  History is always kind to winners.
>
>True.  But, another difference being that the Amerinds were not
>_exterminated_, they were just persecuted.  That is to say, the intent

Really? Remember the Nez Perce? "The only good Injun is a dead Injun"?
Broken treaties and deliberate incitements and massacres of women and
children in Amerind villages? The complete extermination of the East
Coast Amerinds, via deliberate spreading of diseases and alcohol and
outright slaughter?

Sounds like you're perfect proof of what Larry said: History IS kinder
to the winners. 

> The truly unique facet of Jewish persecution is the fact that it
> ALWAYS happens.  

Talk to the Chinese in Southeast Asia. Someone, I forget who, once
said, "the Chinese are the Jews of Southeast Asia". They are, in
general, the entire merchant class of many of those countries, through
the dubious virtues of being refugees from their government and thus
not tied to the land. In other words, for much the same reason that
the Jews became the merchant class of the Middle Ages.  In any event,
in Vietnam, there have been rumors that most of the Chinese were sent
to "re-education camps" or marched, chained, into battle in front of
Vietnamese troops. In Malaysia, Malays have first shot at all
government schools and all government aid programs.  The list goes
on... but the American conscience doesn't. They're "slant-eyed gooks",
while the "kikes" Hitler exterminated at least looked like "real
people". Sheesh. Who's being racist???

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