let's try to do nuance

[Pepi Plowman]

Jon and Mike,

Think what you like.  It's obvious you can't read.  I
NEVER said that Israelis are reborn Nazis--my SISTER
did.  And I reiterate--I am not racist, ethnicist or
otherwise intolerant of anyone, except people who
can't read.

pep


--- Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@ando.pair.com> wrote:
> Jon and Pepi too,
> 
> Racial sense is a very complicated issue. For
> example, I have had 
> 4 or 5 black friends in two cities  (I am not
> counting Ed G as I never 
> detected any friendship overtures from him to me
> poisonally) but there 
> was always a wee tad something short of total ease
> in these friendships. 
> 
> Jews as such, identifiably jewish is got to be a
> stretch for a non jewish
> person not to have some sense of racial difference.
> Or call it a 
> recognizable otherhood.
> 
> Some never get over an imbued childhood sense of
> this.
> 
> Pepi threw us a bone. Its not only the jews who are
> the troublemakers
> disturbing our peace, but their genetic cousins the
> Arabs are doing the
> same. The fact that they are not genetic cousins
> doesnt need to enter
> it. Unlike Bush, I am trying to do nuance.
> Poisonally I don't have a
> sense of being a genetic cousin to anyone. Nor does
> Pepi. Nor do
> individual Israelis. So what does this all boil down
> to? Somehow the 
> Plowman sisters drank in some antijew racism in the
> course of growing 
> up, not unknown even in this country (we all do in
> one way or another
> about others) and it shyly peeps out when she speaks
> as she did 
> about Israelis being reborn Nazis. Fits in neatly
> with general buddhist 
> beliefs which like Protagoras' ruler are infinitely
> maleable.
> 
> Even if I know its there a little bit as regards
> folks "like" me, it 
> doesnt make me like Pepi any the less. I enjoy her
> and her wit when 
> I see her at the T & D Martinez' or at a party.
> 
> Best, 
> 
> Mike
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