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=> Re: Was Orwell an anti-Semite?

Re: Was Orwell an anti-Semite?
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Sunday, August 5 2012, 19:24:03 (UTC)
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>Everyone has irrational dislikes and pet hatreds, some of them morally wrong, but we either outgrow them or they evolve with us, and we have to handle them somehow. Orwell put the handling of his own feelings toward Jews on public display, an act of daring unimaginable today by any “respectable” writer.
>If the involuntary thought − “what is wrong with these Jews?” − goes through my mind, does that make me prejudiced? And what if I confide that thought in my diary or to a friend?” Orwell realized the ugly truth that we are all prejudiced, and tried to deal with it out in the open.

...Orwell was no more prejudiced against Jews than Hitchens is against Muslims...and with all the same illogic and lies. The same sorts of slanders and "proofs" that were urged against Jews have been revived and used against Muslims...the same. Germans, and others, believed world-wide Jewry was out to get them...they saw plots and conspiracies every time one Jew helped another...and today we still speak of the "powerful influence" of the Jewish lobby.....nothing has changed....only the religion and culture that we hate.



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