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AlexEvans · 04-11-2004, 09:56 AM

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Originally posted by *Ledi*:
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I don't know... that's all her mom said... that a lot of people didn't show up at work that day which was sort of weird & suspicious and well she said they probably knew something was going to happen since they all didn't show up on that day. and no...she didn't say "Jews"... or anything.

I really don't know anything else - I'm just saying what I've been told.</STRONG>

It's the people who invented the story, and who spread it around, who I'm mad at. Not you, who I'm sure just heard it and didn't know the origins.

Ceilirose, I never said there shouldn't be criticism. I said people should not search for rational reasons for irrational hatred, when on this board we've seen a few of the pernicious myths that are behind such hatred.

The totally and clearly false allegations regarding what Bush knew are just part of the framework of anti-semitic and anti-american lies that have become so much a part of the modern political discourse. They are relevant and important to what we are discussing, and are an extremely powerful force in contemporary geopolitics.

It is not benign to spread myths about Jews, or about Americans. People act on those myths. People kill over those myths.

There are times rumours or funny stories are safe. In the last Ontario election, the Liberal leader (now Premier) was called (an inside joke that got sent to the wrong e-mail address) a "reptilian kitten eater." Nobody believed he (or Liberals in general) was reptilian, or ate kittens, or tried to kill him to save kittens from being eaten.

However, when similarly absurd stories are made about Jews or Americans, they are acted upon. They become not funny (if they ever were, which usually they weren't) but dangerous, and therefore offensive.

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