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Entry: Our Task Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/another_posting#22413 Post contents: I don't know what to make of all this but I'd like to make 2 points. 1) "Anti-Semitic" is a phrase I really don't like. As far as I know, all the various tribes of the Arabs are Semites (In fact Palestinian and Israeli Jew give a whole new meaning to the phrase blood brother)and the Ashkenazi are not Semites. This term seems to me: inaccurate, racially charged, and euphemistic to the point of cowardice. Don't we in fact mean "Anti-jewish", or even more accurately, "Jew-Haters"? I mean, if we call people out on what they are, Jew-hater, Moslem-hater, or Christian-hater, wouldn't this cut to the heart of things so much more quickly? 2)Gresham's famous law states "good money drives out bad" wherever it is permitted to do so. There is a Gresham's Law of Art "Trash drives out quality" wherever it is permitted to do so. And there is a Gresham's Law of the internet: "Trolls drive out decent people" where ever they are permitted to do so. It seems to me you just received a hard lesson on that particular law. Hope you learned something from it. Sent at: 2008 05 16