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- From: jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: A few facts about circumcision
- Message-ID: <30638@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 10:32:44 GMT
- References: <30269@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1993Jan16.144305.13669@nysernet.org> <765363d6711225t278@witsend.uucp>
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- The following has nothing to do with kids whatsoever:
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- In article <765363d6711225t278@witsend.uucp> dcs@witsend.tnet.com (D. C. Sessions) writes:
- ->Thought it might be interesting to compare the semantics of another
- ->newsgroup, same author. This is from <talk.politics.mideast>:
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- -> In case the relationship between the two articles isn't clear, I'll
- -> save a post by explaining now. In the one case, JH (who has
- -> previously supported the extension of the word 'terrorism') claims
- -> that the term is meaningless because it has been abused.
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- I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you have entirely missed the point,
- which most was simply that since the word "terrorist" can be extended to
- cover more-or-less any circumstance, it has lost any meaning.
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- -> Please, don't follow-up with some hysterical claim that the
- -> common ground for both positions is that Jews are the bad guys.
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- This would be particularly foolish, since Jews are not the only middle-eastern
- religious group to be circumcised.
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