Dear Howard: I've stood in quicksand before when I know I am right. Your analysis does not make sense. However I am not the one that keeps throwing out the misinformation. Why does the word race frighten you? Racism is an ugly word. I have yet to here that kind of thing applied to "Ethnicity". Would that be an ethnicist? Or would the practice be ethnicism. I don't think either of those two words are actually recognized words. I guess it is easy to be a racist when you avoid the word race. I'm not accusing you of that ugliness I am just pointing out what you and a couple of others seem to want to avoid. I did not start this but I am not going to cowed into backing down on it either.
Vance Wood. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Posner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Vance Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "lute list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 5:29 PM Subject: Re: State of Lutenet (was Size of the lute world) > Vance Wood at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > JEWISH IS A RACE, Judaism is a religion. I am dumb struck that you do not > > understand that. > > During the Holocaust The Jews were persecuted because of their race not > > their religion. > > That's pretty much how Goebbels put it. More objective observers attribute > it to the peculiar Nazi ideology that characterized "Jewish" (among others) > as a "race" in defiance of social and biological science. > > You'd be on firmer ground if you characterized "Jewish" as an ethnicity, but > frankly, you'd still be in quicksand from the point of view of the lute > list. Let this thread drop. > > H >
