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Re. brain sizes: Einstein's and women's

John Knight jwknight at polbox.com
Tue Sep 24 17:56:03 EST 2002



"Parse Tree" <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:0RPj9.3469$l44.659319 at news20.bellglobal.com...
> "John Knight" <jwknight at polbox.com> wrote in message
> news:0bNj9.60285$S32.3919092 at news2.west.cox.net...
> >
> > "Bob LeChevalier" <lojbab at lojban.org> wrote in message
> > news:v51rougg3ac1qppqf5fc9llgii0hlrtq0s at 4ax.com...
> > > <raugust at ptd.net> wrote:
> > > >You see, for the "six million Jews" that were "killed" in the
> "holocaust"
> > > >(read my earlier post regarding the real meaning of that word),
> > >
> > > Words mean what we use them to mean.  Just as "gay" no longer refers
> > > only to how you feel on a bright spring day, holocaust no longer
> > > refers to the inside of a nuclear explosion.  Live with it: the
> > > language changes.
> > >
> >
> > Why don't you live with the definition of RACE?  Jews are a RACE.  Live
> with
> > it.
>
> Not really.  They're just as much a religion as they are a 'race'.  In
fact,
> they don't really have a common history or common physical traits.
They're
> more easily and properly categorized as a religion.
>
>

So you're saying that jews are a class of people unified by a community of
interests?

John Knight





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