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Hi WT,I would be interested to know exactly how many European university lecturers you know personally.There is no substitute for personal experience.Brian.

None.

I went to Google and typed "professors justify suicide bombings", and this is what I found:http://www.freeman.org/m_online/jul03/alexander.htmhttp://www.arielbeery.com/archives/000356.htmlThe Homepage of Professor Ted HonderichJihad 101 :: Middle East QuarterlyThere are hundreds more but this is a sampling.

Has Dr. Gene Scott ever been misrepresented by anyone?Brian.

Your point is well taken.Are you saying for the most part that the professors in question have been misrepresented ?This message has been edited by WILLOWTREE, 05-07-2004 06:20 PM

Hi,Just highlighting the problems of generalising, and that life is never straightforward.Brian.OOPS, should have been in member 'Brian' mode.This message has been edited by AdminBrian, 05-07-2004 06:34 PM

But in fairness to myself I haven't generalized, I have been very specific to only indict certain persons. Its a "if the shoe fits sort of thing."

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I never claimed they were causing genocide. I claimed they were providing the rationale for cold blooded murder. Nazis had their rationales for murdering Jews, and as you know THERE ARE NONE !

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Of course there are no good rationales for murdering anyone. That really wasn't my point.Is it your position, though, that university professors are aiding the suicide bombers, or just engaging in armchair philosophy?

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Which means the university professors who whitewash the murder of Jews are doing the exact same thing that Nazis did.

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I am not arguing the content of the metaphorical comparison of the Nazis and the university professors. My argument is that you are exaggerating the similarities. Say that the two groups are alike, but do not say that there is no difference, as this is demonstrably untrue. Saying that they "are doing the exact same thing that Nazis did," would be better restated as "they are doing one of the things that Nazis did." To do otherwise is to imply that those professors are engaging in genocide, or that the Nazis simply justified murder.For example, I can say that the fundamentalist Christians who lived around where I grew up were like the Nazis for burning books. However, to say that there is no difference between the two groups is not true. To say that they "are doing the exact same thing that Nazis did" would be to imply that either all the Nazis were just book burners, or that the fundamentalist Christian book burners are also mass murderers.

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Is it your position, though, that university professors are aiding the suicide bombers, or just engaging in armchair philosophy?
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I am not arguing the content of the metaphorical comparison of the Nazis and the university professors. My argument is that you are exaggerating the similarities. Say that the two groups are alike, but do not say that there is no difference, as this is demonstrably untrue. Saying that they "are doing the exact same thing that Nazis did," would be better restated as "they are doing one of the things that Nazis did." To do otherwise is to imply that those professors are engaging in genocide, or that the Nazis simply justified murder.
______________________________________________________________________I would agree to this statement and stand amended if the portion that says "exaggerating the similarities" is rephrased, in that the persons in question are in fact justifying the murder of Jews, in this specific darkness makes them like the Nazis when the Nazis justified their murder of Jews.