Agreed on Eastman, to an extent.
You wrote:
>>It's the human condition that's the source of most of the misery in the
>>world, not any particular ethnic or religious group. We are a flawed
>>species, to say the least. The only thing that redeems us is the struggle to
>>try to do good as best we can.>>
AIPAC is a Jewish organization by membership, intent, and action. American Jews
opposed to it cannot fight it any more than Arab-Aemricans, who are more
heavily oppressed.
Sean McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Dick Eastman
I regularly see complaints from Dick Eastman about why I don't pass on his
posts to this group. I should probably clear this up for the record.
Eastman comes across basically as a good-hearted person, an idealist and a
truthseeker, who has made major sacrifices in his life to pursue his
intellectual investigations into how the world works. Some of his analysis is
original and interesting. He may well not harbor any malevolent feelings
towards Jews as a whole -- I can't be certain. But many of his posts are
framed with rhetorical tropes and themes straight from classical anti-Semitic
writings, and can easily be used to whip up anti-Semitic hatred. He doesn't
seem to be able to gain control over his language, to make careful
discriminations. He's like a big friendly sloppy dog who tracks mud all over
the carpets.
So: while I respect Eastman's sacred right of free speech, I am not
interested in circulating materials that can be misused to promote bigotry and
hatred.
The idea that Jews somehow have a monopoly on bad behavior throughout world
history has to be one of the craziest memes that has ever come down the pike.
Everywhere one looks, one encounters bad behavior among other groups, all other
groups. It's the human condition that's the source of most of the misery in
the world, not any particular ethnic or religious group. We are a flawed
species, to say the least. The only thing that redeems us is the struggle to
try to do good as best we can.
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