Antisemites
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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 17:32:35 -0500
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From: Mark
Worrell
[...] I think this whole line of argument is
getting nowhere and I see no benefit. There has to be
more to life than beating up each other's literary heroes
and famous thinkers.
Professor Cohen sent out an email (to myself,
Sloane, and Michael) describing his journey through an
antisemitic discussion network because he wanted to know
what and how they think. Wow, a sociologist? I'd love to
know what he found. Professor Cohen, could you provide a
brief (or detailed!) report regarding what you found and
could you provide an initial interpretation? If you could
provide us all with the site address maybe we could go
look for ourselves, take some notes, and get back
together to discuss some real-time antisemitism right
here.
If, on the other hand, the discussion thread continues
in its present direction, I think a new set of procedures
ought to be followed. It would be more efficient if, from
now on, we produced a list of people who were
NOT Jew-haters. As an alternative
to the reverse strategy, maybe, in a concession to
scholarly precision, we could institute a rating system
whereby one could assign a percentage of antisemitism to
some person. For example, Twain could be assigned
an Antisemite percentage of, say, 48 and Emerson
might be a 22% antisemite etc. We could even make it more
subtle by attributing a proportion to these figures as
they were in their own historical contexts, and, a number
that could determine their quantity of hatred "as if"
they were alive today. For example, Melville might
be 30% antisemitic in his own day but 75% antisemitic if
he were alive today.
Suggestions?
Mark Worrell
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