Dear Mr Pearlman,
You do not know what I thought of your
message. Nor do you know what I thought of Charles Moyer's parody. You
shouldn't jump to prejudicial conclusions. What I do not like is your
coercing everyone else to react as you do. My mild outcry is against your
witch-hunt.
I don't condone or support anti-semitism. Since I was around in 1945 when
the first film of Belsen was shown there's no great virtue in that. My own
experience of totalitarian prejudice has been insignificant by comparison,
but one can only resist it as one finds it. One of the forms of prejudice I
have known and choose to resist has been what you are practising: the
attempt to coerce everyone to condemn absolutely whatever may be perceived
as antisemitic, or else be branded an antisemite.
Object to Charles Moyer's line on your own behalf and I am with you. But
tell me that if I don't get in my objection first then I am condoning
antisemitism, and I am not with you. Prejudice is indeed to be worked
against, beginning with one's own.
David Moody
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Pearlman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 7:17 AM
Subject: Re: Dan Pearlman's posting
> Mr. Moody's logic, supported by Mr. Niecko, is also
> interesting to examine. They don't like the message,
> so blame the messenger. If, in the fifties, there
> had been enough of a public outcry against McCarthy,
> the witch-hunt he inspired would never have gotten
> started.
>
> Let people "think" as they wish, but let people ACT
> in support of civilized values. I don't care what
> one privately "thinks," but this is a PUBLIC arena,
> and any one of us who attacks the ethnicity, race, etc.,
> of any one of us or group of us has mounted a public
> attack against ALL of us.
>
> ==Dan Pearlman
>
> At 07:33 AM 12/04/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> >Very well said, Professor Moody--
> >
> >
> >Jacek Niecko
> >Washington DC
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "A. David Moody" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 2:00 PM
> >Subject: Re: Dan Pearlman's posting
> >
> >
> > > What I register in your posting, Mr Pearlman, is the spirit of the
> > > thought-enforcer. What right have you to demand that I declare my
> >reaction
> > > to Charles Moyers' squib? ('Are you now or have you have you ever
> > > been....?') What right have you to accuse others unknown to you of
> > > 'condoning' anti-semitism by 'collective silence'? Remember, Pound
held
> >all
> > > Jews guilty of usury because of what he regarded as their collective
> > > silence about it. Please speak for yourself, and respect the right
of
> > > others to think and speak for themselves. Hang on in there!
> > >
> > > David Moody
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Daniel Pearlman" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 3:04 PM
> > > Subject: Moyer's antisemitic posting
> > >
> > >
> > > > Am I the only one on this list to register--and to react to--
> > > > the antisemitism of Mr. Moyer in his recent posting, which I
> > > > copy below? If you can condone this sort of language and
> > > > this sort of mentality on this list, as you appear to do by
> > > > your collective silence, then this is no place for me to
> > > > hang out.
> > > >
> > > > ==Dan Pearlman
> > > >
> > > > From: charles moyer <[log in to unmask]>
> > > > Subject: Re: a parody from "Instigations"
> > > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > >
> > > > Can't sleep? Try counting sheep. There's a never-ending supply, and
> >you'll
> > > > need them if you let such trifles as these trouble your sleep.
> > > > If that doesn't work here's another parody that might help;
> > > >
> > > > The Land's at its spring
> > > > And day's at the morn;
> > > > No one's a novice;
> > > > The Senate's Jew-pearled;
> > > > The flag's on its wing;
> > > > The snailmail's all porn;
> > > > Greenspan's in office
> > > > All's right with the world.
> > > > -
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > HOME:
> > > > Dan Pearlman
> > > > 102 Blackstone Blvd. #5
> > > > Providence, RI 02906
> > > > Tel.: 401 453-3027
> > > > email: [log in to unmask]
> > > > Fax: (253) 681-8518
> > > > http://www.uri.edu/artsci/english/clf/
> > > >
> > > > OFFICE
> > > > Department of English
> > > > University of Rhode Island
> > > > Kingston, RI 02881
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> > > >
> > >
>
> HOME:
> Dan Pearlman
> 102 Blackstone Blvd. #5
> Providence, RI 02906
> Tel.: 401 453-3027
> email: [log in to unmask]
> Fax: (253) 681-8518
> http://www.uri.edu/artsci/english/clf/
>
> OFFICE
> Department of English
> University of Rhode Island
> Kingston, RI 02881
> Tel.: 401 874-4659
>
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