Reply #186: Thanks for clarifying. [View All]

[izzybeans]

I was in a rush sorry. I think you may start a more fruitful discussion by focusing on the second point to your OP, which is getting beyond anti-semitism. No one disputes its existence. And it is easy to lay claim to one definition or another. It just became apparent to me that discussions of the definition are probably not going to move us beyond it. I was wondering if you thought an open ended discussion of "getting beyond anti-semitism" would be worthwhile. And then I spit out in a half-cocked manner some issues that may need to be dealt with to move beyond it. Finally I think that might deserve its own thread; leaving the definition behind. This is the sort of thing you feel more than define anyway. When it feels right then we know how far beyond it we will have moved.

On edit: I think this will get passed the misunderstanding evident in the thread-my posts included. There has been so much going on in regards to this term lately that the eyes begin to play tricks and assumptions run wild.