[Ads-l] Latent anti-Semitism [Was: Provenance of /Or/ > [ar] / __@ ?]
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Oct 8 06:55:42 UTC 2016
On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Margaret Winters <mewinters at wayne.edu>
wrote:
> And is not incompatible with certain kinds of what Joel calls latent
> anti-Semitism.
I agree with Joel.
Tim's comments remind me of an episode of American Dad in which Stan Smith,
the Dad, goes to sub-Saharan Africa to find his son. He questions a local,
who rhetorically asks, "Do you mean the white boy?" Stan angrily retorts,
"Why is everything always about race with you black people?!"
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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