Posted by Lou Pilder on September 12, 2004, at 16:45:58
In reply to Lou's request to Dr. Hsiung for expungment-388469, posted by Lou Pilder on September 11, 2004, at 13:48:33
Dr. Hsiung,
Thank you for having this administrative board to give me the opportunity to respond to your decision to allow 388469 to stand.
I have asked you to review the poem and I have pointed out what [I see] as some lines in the poem that have the {potential to arrouse antisemitic feelings}. One poster writes that she/he interprets part of the poem to mean [... that the God of the old testament is a vengeful God and that the author of the poem wants us to reevaluate that figure as perhaps not-so-divine...]. That is the God that has revealed Himself to me and the God that has revealed Himself to the jews while in slavery in ancient Egypt and to all others that believe in that God. If the author is saying that that God needs to be reevaluated as perhaps not-so divine, then would that statement alone not have the potential to arrouse antisemitic feelings? There are other lines that mention things that have the potential to link Israel with this, such as [...realize for every ongoing war and religious outrage...and [...bogus Iraqi attack plan...]and, [...this is a time of war mongering and bitterness...],and[...the world needs your help...you can do something...].
Your decision wrote that it is your opinion that the poem is not antisemitic. But I am not saying that the poem is antisemitic, for I wrote that it was my concern that the poem [...has the potential to arrouse antisemitc feelings...].
Has not my request to have a determination to delete the post, based on the post [...having the potential to arrouse antisemitic feelings...], been changed to as to if the post is in your opinion antisemitic? I feel that these two are not the same.
For something to be determined as antisemitic one would have to have some rational for making that determination, and that rational could be many different things. If you could post what your rational for your opinion , then I could have the opportuinty to respond accordingly.
Many people have written their rational for determining if something is antisemitic. I am asking that the following link by Dr. Martin Luther King be taken in consideration in considering a rational for determining if something is antisemitic.
Lou Pilder
http://www.christianactionforisrael.org/antiholo/ml_king.html
poster:Lou Pilder
thread:389694
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