| Comrade Tovya said:
It was just another one of the many fabricated stories about Jews that went around, especially during the middle ages. Another one was the whole Jews killing Christians to makes matzos and wine on Pesach.... I don't mind if you make a mistake, I'll never hold a grudge against you... Everybody says something at some point that they wish they wouldn't have said. We're all human, so no worries. But, I will say that whether you say something racist behind a pulpit in front of the media, or just privately to one of your friends, not one action is worse than the other. Both are equal in stupidity. |
And I also think blaming the Jews for Jesus being killed is pretty ridiculous. If you actually do any research on the subject, Pontius Pilate was certainly not as nice as the (later Gospels in) the New Testament make him out to be. The Romans killed Jesus because he was a threat. They didn't do it for any lofty or any ignoble reasons, they just were worried about keeping order. You don't get to become the overseer of a territory (can't remember the technical term, something similar to a governor) by baking people cupcakes. Though the Romans in many ways were pretty tolerant as long as there were no threats to the stability of their power.
I also don't hold grudges against people who unintentionally (or often even those who intentionally) offend me. It doesn't accomplish much of anything. My comment just happened to coincidentally be more racist than I intended to be. My racism really just extended to the degree that I wanted to throw latkas into a Jew joke. If you watch a show like Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David (Jewish guy) loves to throw Hebrew words into his jokes.
I do disagree about the comparative stupidity, as one makes the front pages and the other doesn't.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
