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[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/23/2010 12:06 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>  No, I meant that they are bigoted in a strange way.
>
>     VS-)

But bigotry against Jews is not strange -- that is, not "10. a.
Unfamiliar, abnormal, or exceptional to a degree that excites wonder
or astonishent; difficult to take in or account for; queer,
surprising, unaccountable."

(I'm not arguing with Victor, merely noting my somewhat different
characterization of these particular bigots.)

Joel


>On 10/23/2010 8:56 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>At 10/23/2010 04:10 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>>>My ex-wife is working with a bunch of very strangely bigoted people.
>>Don't you mean "strange bigoted people"?  :-)
>>...
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