Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]HOLD IT....B. D. Colen did NOT write that. Just want to set the record straight. And I did use terms such as master race refering to certain racist crap that was being posted by a certain member. B.een badly D.efamed this time Krechtz@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 12/1/00 6:41:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, > bdcolen@earthlink.net writes: > > << Then of course expanding the comparison we have Schiller and > > Goethe, Beethoven and Wagner, Von Bruan and Einstein. >> > > Interesting choices. First time I've seen Wagner and Einstein held up > together as models of German pre-eminence. I am, of course, being very > restrained here. I could have used terms such as "Aryan" or "master race". > However, the irony of including a Jew who fled the Nazi regime side by side > with a vicious polemical anti-Semite like Wagner is sufficient unto itself, > at least to those having the barest knowledge of European history. > The writer is clearly oblivious, but it is to be noted that ignorance, > ethnocentricity and volubility are not infrequently found as companion > personality traits. The LUG is a truly international and multi-cultural > group. I suppose we can make room for a few neo-Nazis. > > Joe Sobel