Woof!!! I do seem to have hit a nerve here!!! I am flattered though to
think that someone sees me as a poster boy.
Ed
>Now, I admit I might have missed part of the beginning of this
>jew=capitalist thing during the turmoil of switching ISP's, but Ed's
>attempt to apologise about the shmazzozzle is even more offensive than the
>stuff I have read. He tried to turn jew=capitalist into
>protester=brownshirt and he thinks that should fix it. That is so whacked
>that I would not know where to begin in debunking it if I were to bother
>trying.
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>I have been noticing Ed Weick for awhile. He is the poster boy example of
>somebody with a complete lack of good sense trying to be a philosopher. It
>isn't that he 'offends sensibilities;' personally I love offending
>'sensibilities.' It is that he shoots off his mouth about whatever pops
>into his head because he is either incapable of, or can't be bothered with,
>first working out the implications of what he is saying. Thus he keeps
>laying eggs faster than a leghorn hen on estrogen and wondering why he is
>being 'misunderstood.'
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>No, people understand what you are saying, Ed. It is that you yourself
>don't understand what you are saying, which should suggest to you that
>perhaps you should shut up.
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>That is the end of my contribution to this, although it doesn't seem to be
>moving on very fast. Tim R.
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>>>Agree.
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>>>From: Tim Rourke
>>>It is time this whole putrid 'string' about whether jews are capitalists
>>>dissapeared. It should never have gottern started. If it does not I am
>>>going to contact the Jewish anti-defamation league. Blech.
>>>
>>>Tim R.
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>>But please allow me one last word. I feel as though I've been
>>misunderstood, or at least understood by only a few people. I personally
>>was not calling Jews anything. What I was talking about was the
groundless
>>persecution of the Jews or indeed of any people, a process that usually
>>begins and becomes justified by repeatedly labeling them "capitalist",
>>"infidels", "unbelievers", "terrorists" or whatever the anthithesis of the
>>dominant set of beliefs happens to be and scares people enough to make
them
>>react. In doing so I was reacting to some of the news coming out of
>>Seattle, where being "capitalist" was a very bad thing, and where some
small
>>franchisees had windows smashed. I know that what happened in Seattle was
>>nothing like Krystalnacht, but I couldn't help thinking of that fateful
>>event and the awful things that followed it.
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>>I apologize if anyone has been offended. I will move on and refrain from
>>using an ironic style of writing again. However, I do hope it was the
style
>>and not the substance of what I wrote that bothered people.
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>>Ed Weick
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