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For some years now, however, the blenders have been trying to destroy that identity: "white person," and sublimate it into "American" which has lost it's meaning as a synonym for white person. So, given the present de facto denial of the right to white identity for white people and the promoting of the blended identity substitute "American," the result is that white people don't have a sense of their essential identity or of peoplehood. They are alienated from their essential individual and group selves. The equivalent feeling of identity that should be natural for white people and which is found in Jews in their Jewishness, is not found by non-Jewish white people, in being, say, Catholic or Baptist, or in other well known religious beliefs, but in race. But, as already mentioned, this identity based on race is being stripped from whites by the race deniers. Non-Jewish whites are being told that they are not a people; that race does not exist; and that they are no different from all other people.
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| But there's more wrong with Mr. Jacoby's type of thinking, as expressed in his columns, that needs to be pointed out. Turn, for example, to the issue of free speech. When one reads various things by race deniers, it becomes clear that in addition to their race denying, they also often share a double standard regarding free speech. Instead of across the board, bedrock principles that apply equally to all speech, some of these individuals seem to have one set of rules for themselves and their friends, and another set of rules for others.
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| So, if I understand Mr. Jacoby correctly, Dr. Laura should be able to speak freely about gays, but those who want to speak freely about the Holocaust (and, inferentially, about race) apparently shouldn't be allowed to do so. Gays who call Dr. Laura "hateful," are wrong, and are wrongfully trying to silence her, but Jews who call those who want to openly discuss the Holocaust "hateful" are right, and are rightfully trying to silence them. In fact, just to make the point clear; aren't the race deniers, including Mr. Jacoby, trying to do exactly what Mr. Jacoby claims the Holocaust deniers are trying to do? Aren't the race deniers planting seeds of doubt about the reality of race, and might this not lead to the destruction; not just of the memory of Six Million, but of entire distinct races of humans? Aren't the race deniers aiming at acceptance of the idea that their HATEFUL FALSEHOODS (that race doesn't exist, for example) are a legitimate 'other side' to cause people to be confused about genetics and to destroy themselves?
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| Jacoby finishes up his already mentioned column on Holocaust deniers with, "Intimidation, censorship, blacklisting, 'derecognition'- these are the coward's ways to win an argument. Those who believe in gay rights used to also believe in reason, persuasion, and the free exchange of ideas. What happened?"
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