Friday, March 19, 2004
I tried to comment on your recent "Stupid Letter of the Week", but I was unable to keep my comments brief enough to fit onto the blog. Nicosia is essentially correct, but extremely inarticulate. This is probably why her letter was printed.
There are ways of behaving that can cause other people to become angry. Wanting to kick Foxman in the head until it is no longer recognizable as a head is no more anti-Semetic than what I would like to do to Israeli labor party leaders, everyone at the U.S. State Department, and all other enemies of Israel. Slandering the only gentiles in the world who support Israel is that despicable, and the set of people doing it overlaps obscenely with the set of people in love with Arafat (starting with every "Christian" group with the words "International" or "Council" in it's name).
The way Nicosia worded the first part of her letter so that it could be construed as justifying her "hatred for Jews" is definitely more stupid than the mistake that she made in her conclusion. Attributing rational motives (legitimate concerns about assimilation) to the paranoid secularist hysteria was, however, admittedly very stupid of her.
- Dave Munger