But Hatton, there are several of us here saying that this does not correspond to our experience. Granted a non-jew like me is a little less likely to notice the less blatant stuff, in the same way as whites are more likely to consider discrimination against blacks to be be an issue, but it *still* seems wierd to me, especially in the Guardian. I'd be more likely to expect that sort of think out of a tabloid like the Sun.
On 8/15/06, C. Hatton Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/14/06, Wayne Putterill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know where you were (or what sort of people you were hanging out > > with), but I have never heard anything like that. > > With all due respect you are a single individual and not a national > media outlet. There are anti-semites in every country and Michael is > not saying, "all Brits are anti-semites". He is saying that the media > opinion being reflected is grossly biased towards those few > anti-semites around. > > I grew up in the southern part of US and there are still signs from > the 50's and 60's that read, "<racial slur for blacks> don't let the > sun set on your black <alternate word for donkey> in our town > tonight!" > > If a news crew filmed only that and those people that support that > opinion, the bias would be that people in that town are bigoted and > racist. Some would think that the town still holds and supports those > racist views and that the majority of residents are racists. Common > logic points that to be anything but the truth but in thinking that > everyone is common logic we make an assumption that isn't always true. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:213226 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
