Posted by Lou Pilder on July 20, 2002, at 16:31:03
In reply to Anti_semitic or Stating Facts, posted by IsoM on July 20, 2002, at 14:04:24
IsoM,
You asked if a report that someone said that their jewish neighbor burnt down his store to collect insurance would be anti-Semitic .
My answer is undoubtably," yes." One reason is that the identification of the neighbor being jewish has nothing to do with the fact of arson. This is called linkage. The crime is linked to being jewish and it should never have been in the statement, for being jewish doesn't lead to criminal activity although your example links it to it. The reason people use linkage is mostly because of hate, and they want to defame the one that they are using linkage to and arrouse hate to them by others. In the middle ages, the black plague was linked to the jews by using the same hatefull means.
Lou
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