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Violet_Crumble Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-11-08 05:13 AM
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9. I had some issues with the first paragraph in particular...
..especially about the concept of forgiving and moving on. I think it's possible to move on without forgiving, but if he's talking about forgiving those who carried out the Holocaust, then I think it's very unreasonable to expect forgiveness. I don't expect other groups that have been victims of genocide to forgive the perpetrators, so I find that all a bit silly...

But having said that, I'm not sure I'm seeing where the article crosses into antisemitism. Is it that he talks about Jewish identity? I'm not fond of anything that says any group has the same identity, and while there are Jewish people who do what he talks about, there are so many that don't....
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