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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Agree! We still have evidence on this thread of the very behavior we are talking about.....the propensity of progressive liberals to explain away very obvious antisemtitism - and who actually get angry at the Jews who are rightly pointing out that any bigotry toward  Jewish people is completely unacceptable. [/quote]

I don't agree that there is obvious anti-Semitism on White's part. Even you are unable to point to obvious anti-Semitism. He didn't know the Rothschilds are Jewish and was spreading his nutty conspiracy theory out of ignorance, not anti-Semitism. He left the tour group because of the reporter and the subsequent article by that reporter demonstrated that White's instincts were correct. This is not "explaining away very obvious anti-Semitism", but simply pointing out that there wasn't obvious anti-Semitism. I can't explain away something that wasn't there in the first place.

Don't you understand the harm that you are doing by describing someone as being an obvious anti-Semite when he is no such thing? Don't you see how that sort of unfair treatment could generate a backlash? How would you react to being publicly described as a racist? Would that make you more or less understanding of people of color?

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He didn't just leave. He doubled down on trying to explain away the Nazis' cruelty in the displays, after the docent responded. I do think that refusing to "see" the anti-semitism in images from the Holocaust is unabashedly anti-semitic. It's much as if I went to tour the African American history museum and asked "innocent" questions like, "were the blacks given their own drinking fountains because they wanted a different kind of water?" I mean, come on! "Were they protecting the woman in the photos?"[/quote]

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