Now, I admit I might have missed part of the beginning of this
jew=capitalist thing during the turmoil of switching ISP's, but Ed's
attempt to apologise about the shmazzozzle is even more offensive than the
stuff I have read. He tried to turn jew=capitalist into
protester=brownshirt and he thinks that should fix it. That is so whacked
that I would not know where to begin in debunking it if I were to bother
trying.
I have been noticing Ed Weick for awhile. He is the poster boy example of
somebody with a complete lack of good sense trying to be a philosopher. It
isn't that he 'offends sensibilities;' personally I love offending
'sensibilities.' It is that he shoots off his mouth about whatever pops
into his head because he is either incapable of, or can't be bothered with,
first working out the implications of what he is saying. Thus he keeps
laying eggs faster than a leghorn hen on estrogen and wondering why he is
being 'misunderstood.'
No, people understand what you are saying, Ed. It is that you yourself
don't understand what you are saying, which should suggest to you that
perhaps you should shut up.
That is the end of my contribution to this, although it doesn't seem to be
moving on very fast. Tim R.
>>Agree.
>> ----------
>>From: Tim Rourke
>>It is time this whole putrid 'string' about whether jews are capitalists
>>dissapeared. It should never have gottern started. If it does not I am
>>going to contact the Jewish anti-defamation league. Blech.
>>
>>Tim R.
>
>
>But please allow me one last word. I feel as though I've been
>misunderstood, or at least understood by only a few people. I personally
>was not calling Jews anything. What I was talking about was the groundless
>persecution of the Jews or indeed of any people, a process that usually
>begins and becomes justified by repeatedly labeling them "capitalist",
>"infidels", "unbelievers", "terrorists" or whatever the anthithesis of the
>dominant set of beliefs happens to be and scares people enough to make them
>react. In doing so I was reacting to some of the news coming out of
>Seattle, where being "capitalist" was a very bad thing, and where some small
>franchisees had windows smashed. I know that what happened in Seattle was
>nothing like Krystalnacht, but I couldn't help thinking of that fateful
>event and the awful things that followed it.
>
>I apologize if anyone has been offended. I will move on and refrain from
>using an ironic style of writing again. However, I do hope it was the style
>and not the substance of what I wrote that bothered people.
>
>Ed Weick
