Jeroen van Baardwijk wrote: >> Jeroen, your snide comments insult me, they >> insult my parents, and they insult every person >> that fought the injustices of that period. > > Then maybe now you can understand how I must feel, > seeing my fellow Europeans over and over again > insulted by (mostly false) accusations of > anti-Semitism, "enthusiastically helping the > Nazis round up the Jews" and "not doing anything > to help the Jews". > > Sucks, huh?
Jeroen-- Is this really the style of argument you want to adopt? That because you think an unfair and slanderous attack has been made against X, you are going to respond by making an unfair and slanderous attack against Y? I haven't seen anything this stupid since 1991?was it?, when some boneheaded African-American sophomore responded to the guy from Alabama who had hung a Confederate flag in his window by hanging a Nazi flag in hers. You know how to behave better than this. Brad DeLong P.S.: ""It was thus alarming to see [left-wing anti-McDonalds anti-globalization European 'activist' Jose] Bove... informing viewers of the TV channel Canal Plus that the attacks on French synagogues were being either arranged or fabricated by Mossad. 'Who profits from the crime?' Bove asked. 'The Israeli government and its secret services have an interest in creating a certain psychosis, in making believe that there is a climate of anti-Semitism in France, in order to distract attention from what they are doing.' ..."
