Posted by Medusa on December 23, 2002, at 1:49:28
In reply to Re: David Burns' Feeling Good book and Verbal Judo, posted by JenR on December 15, 2002, at 21:52:02
> I'm not real fond of anti-Semitism.
I'm glad you feel free to share your feelings, but GMAFB. I'm Jewish, and too many of us use that as a license to limit others' speech but throw our own abuse around. We can abuse goys - like the poster's schoolmates did - and should they complain, we can just call them anti-semitic. This behavior justifies prejudice.
So yes, part of the poster's problem is labeling and all-or-nothing thinking. But accusing him of anti-semitism because he referenced being goaded by one of our tribe, well, that just ain't kashruth. Concerns can be voiced civilly. Screaming anti-semitism is not civil.
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