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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: [OT] facism gaining ground in US
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Pierce T . Wetter III |
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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: [OT] facism gaining ground in US |
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Sun, 18 Jul 2004 17:37:24 -0700 |
On Jul 18, 2004, at 4:18 PM, Jean-Michel FAYARD wrote:
Pierce T.Wetter III a écrit :
Contrast this with just a casual reading of my European sources, and
they seem more racist then we do lately. I hear anti-semitism is on
the
rise in Europe...I hear about beatings of guest workers...I hear
you're
thinking about not letting Turkey in the EU.
Anti-semitism is on the rise in Europe ?
You probably have heard of the disgusting story of Marie L.(24 years
old) who was attacked in the subway of Paris, France, by 5 mueslims
and black people, who began to be histeric when they thought she was a
jew (she is not), cut her hair and her clothes, painted on her back a
swastika and hurted her baby. The most disgusting part of the story
was that ~20 people watched the scene, and nobody reacted.
The story made instantly the cover of all radios, tvs, newspapers, and
get comments from highest politicians.
Except...
the whole story was a fake from A to Z., as discovered by the police a
few days after. She was just an alone woman who wanted to attract the
attention from her family and friends.
Nope, hadn't heard of that.
I was thinking of things I've read like this:
http://www.newstatesman.com/site.php3?
newTemplate=NSArticle_People&newDisplayURN=200406280017
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jeffjacoby/jj20040315.shtml
http://www.iht.com/articles/122394.html
Here's a survey article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3234264.stm
Here's a counter-point:
http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1111892
One interesting thing for me is that a melting-pot American, I see
many differences between peoples as insignificant. Its such a part of
our culture that its hard to explain to a European, but most americans
can't quite grasp where other peoples see differences. As an american
of German/Irish/English/Scottish descent, it is very hard for me to
grasp the difference between say, a Serb and a Croatian... When the
Economist talks about the "French"
above for instance, I kind of see that as racist...
So its hard for Americans to grasp Sunny/Shia/Kurd in Iraq, or
Tutwilli/kawilli in Africa. We see them as one people...because they
live in the
same place.
How exactly are the Swedes and the Norweigans different again?
I doubt this fact get the same media coverage as the fake incident.
Sure, controversy sells, the status quo doesn't...preaching to the
choir
there...
My advice : it's not like there isn't any problems, much of them
caused by the bloody, endless and hopeless conflict in
Israël/Palestine (a situation not helped by all the errors of the Bush
administration, sorry again, sad but true),
or the errors of the EU, or the errors of various Arab countries, etc.
but don't overestimate it. By doing that, you feed the propaganda of
Sharon and a certain extremist lobby influent in Washington : only in
Israël are we safe, anywhere else is the ennemy for us, jews[1], in
short, frighten people and they will unite themselves around the
leader, no matter what, and you can make them do whatever you want.
[1] the moment people become to think again themselves as "jews" and
not citizen, french, european, whatever, is the moment you can begin
to be frightened.
I think anti-semitism can be a very subtle problem. Israel in part was
created by Britain to get support in WWI from the (nonexistent) cabal
of Jews that was supposedly running things...
Reference: The Peace to end all Peace, a book I can't reccomend it
enough.
Pierce
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