Arthur, A nice reply.
With regard to Grim: does he live and work in Germany? If he doesn't, scrub the bit completely. If he does, then it becomes a personal comment about his impressions - which is quite valid. Like Keith and probably everyone, I have an occasional contact with prejudice. Mostly I don't argue with them for I want to find out more about the way they think. Given their head they can get pretty scary - though I think mostly its just talk. Then, there is the opposite side of things - the truth. Black people commit some 80% of the violent crimes, so they would still be a large part of the prison population - even if the idiocy of drug convictions were removed. Is that the truth - or racist? Harry ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arthur wrote: >I forwarded the Grim article to a friend, middle aged and Jewish born in >Holland. He now lives in California. Here is his reply. > >------------------------------------ > >Much of this guy writes is nonsense, built on a narrow and precarious >foundation of selected factoids. > >Foremost , his main conclusion that there is a uniqueness to German >anti-Semitism is simply not true. A more vigourous and widespread >expression >of anti-Semitism has occurred in France, and recently in Italy, than in >Germany. France has double the population of Muslims than Germany. There >are more Turks per capita in Holland than in Germany. Most do not support a >rabid form of muslim fundamentalism. I have lived in Holland among Turks >and >my family continues to do so. > >His contention that the USA should oppose European integration through the >EU >is also nonsense. It is precisely what is needed to combat German >nationalism. > >Institutionally the Germans have enacted more measures to teach the history >of >the Nazis in schools, through public art everywhere, and through many other >measures than have other countries. The history of Vichy and the massive >French collaboration with the Nazis is barely taught in the lyc�es in >France. >Silence reign in Italy about their participation in this recent chapter of >their history. Same story in Japan. > >The holocaust was not the only genocide that taken place during the last >century. There have been many others, from Stalin in the USSR to Pol Pot >in >Cambodia. The list is depressingly long. Probably this century will be >remembered by historians (if there are any left) as the age of mass >barbarism, >of nations of displaced peoples and refugees. As a jew I am tired of >wearing >the collective mantle of a unique victimization due to the our holocaust, as >if >others did not also experience the same fate. Genocide is a human trait, >not >unique to any nationality. Either we learn to control it by eliminating >ignorance, greed and hatred, or we will not survive. ****************************** Harry Pollard Henry George School of LA Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (818) 352-4141 Fax: (818) 353-2242 *******************************
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