Back to AtD Anti-Semitism

[Ian Livingston]

It's true that there seems to be little choice offered. Support for
one group of Semitic people seems to translate as prejudicial hatred
of other Semitic people. Caring for all is excluded.

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 5:54 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> pp. 807-808....reread and feel how Pynchon captured Anti-Semitism so
> straightforwardly (in Vienna)
> 'it was the air people breathed".....had reached a level of abstraction
> removed from
> blood.........so now it was "a source of energy, a tremendous dark
> energy".....that
> could be used in many ways......[check out how those energies are still
> there feeding
> racial and other hatreds in the US and other countries I'm sure]
> ................................and the way this ends......
>
> (just in case you've wondered about your own anti-semitism or prejudice) we
> get
> that Pynchon touch wherein after Cyprian makes a joke about Shanghia
> Jews,even
> Yashmeen starts to articulate that belief................
>
> It,such prejudice, is in the air and everyone is infected.



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant