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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
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  5. Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:59:26 EST
  6. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  7. From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
  8. Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs
  9. Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu
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  12. Posted on 21 Dec 1992 at 15:27:00 by Peter Montgomery
  13. >Obviously you haven't experienced that kind of mockery, or you would
  14. >understand. A more commonly used word is prejudice. Hitler & co. mocked
  15. >Jewish beliefs unmercifully. Is that something to be tolerated? In-
  16.  
  17. Huh?  I don't remember Jewish *beliefs* being mocked by white supremacists.
  18. Usually it is appearance, or some idea about their origins.  Ditto about
  19. African Americans.  It isn't *beliefs* that are usually mentioned.  The
  20. Chinese American who was clubbed to death in Detroit several years ago
  21. wasn't killed for his *beliefs*--he was killed because the stupid auto
  22. workers thought he was Japanese.
  23.  
  24. >terestingly, you don't tend to hear Jews mocking Hitler's beliefs in
  25. >racial purity.
  26.  
  27. You hang out with the wrong people.
  28.  
  29. Re the Golden Rule:  this is such a commonly held belief that I didn't
  30. know what it is till I was in my mid-30's.
  31.  
  32. Karen
  33.