<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><span><div><span>"spiraling whatsits from David up-is-down Green"</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, new york, times, serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span></span> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, new york, times, serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Perhaps you'd like to suggest a specific.<var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var></span></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;"> <div style="font-family: tahoma, new york, times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font
size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> David Gehrig <david-cu@nukulele.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, November 24, 2012 10:13 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Peace-discuss] What I Learned On This List<br> </font> </div> <br>
Ah well, I tried. And it's been enlightening.<br><br>Here’s what I’ve learned. When encountering Holocaust denial in one's<br>own community for the first time -- and encountering it on the left<br>not the right -- the proper response, according to replies from the<br>list of the self-proclaimed anti-racism organization, is to do the<br>following "anti-racist" things:<br><br>(a) begin with a fusillade of gratuitous and off-topic insults aimed<br>at anyone, you know, actually bothered by Holocaust denial<br><br>(b) immediately change the subject to, say, the JFK assassination<br><br>(c) immediately change the subject to, say, Norman Finkelstein<br><br>(d) immediately change the subject to, say, South Africa<br><br>(e) immediately change the subject to, say, 9/11 trooferdom<br><br>(f) immediately change the subject to, say, Israel<br><br>(g) immediately change the subject to any other damn thing under the<br>sun but (h) smother any on-topic discussion
of that Holocaust denial<br>as an instance of racism in our community and (i) tell the one who is<br>offended by the racism that *he’s* the bad guy.<br><br>This is anti-racism?<br><br>I believe there are many good people on this list. Yet the replies I<br>got were off-topic spiraling whatsits from David up-is-down Green and<br>a pair of Johnsons. If firemen fought fires the way these guys fight<br>antisemitism, CU would be ashes.<br><br>@%<<br>_______________________________________________<br>Peace-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" ymailto="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>