On 6 Oct, 21:58, David Johnston  wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:45:41 -0700 (PDT), john....@gmail.com wrote:
> >On 6 Oct, 17:41, Ariadne  wrote:
> >> On 6 Oct, 16:42, David Johnston  wrote:
>
> >> > On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 01:18:37 -0700 (PDT), john....@gmail.com wrote:
> >> > >On 6 Oct, 07:43, David Johnston  wrote:
> >> > >> On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 23:20:53 -0700 (PDT), john....@gmail.com wrote> >> > >> >On 5 Oct, 23:58, David Johnston  wrote:
> >> > >> >> On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 11:21:26 -0700 (PDT), john....@gmail.com wrote:
> >> > >> >> >On 3 Oct, 23:23, David Johnston  wrote:
> >> > >> >> >> On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 08:35:15 -0700 (PDT), john....@gmail.com wrote:
> >> > >> >> >> >On 3 Oct, 16:03, David Johnston  wrote:
>
> >> > >> >> >> >> >Only on the narrowest definition. Jewish identity is not tied to
> >> > >> >> >> >> >religion. For a lot of Jews communism was a form of secularism to
> >> > >> >> >> >> >which they could relate, and in which Jews were dominant,
>
> >> > >> >> >> >> But they weren't dominant.  So much for that.  
>
> >> > >> >> >> >For a a while they were.
>
> >> > >> >> >> No they weren't.  Neither Lenin nor Stalin were Jews.  
>
> >> > >> >> >Lenin was one quarter Jewish as has now been clearly established.
>
> >> > >> >> There is no such thing as being one quarter Jewish.  Someone is either
> >> > >> >> Jewish or they aren't.  
>
> >> > >> >Sheer pedantry. But I suppose people who want to argue away Jewish
> >> > >> >influence on communism have to leap at everything they can.
>
> >> > >> Actually I was arguing that Jewish _chauvinism_ had no influence on
> >> > >> communism, since the Jews who were leading lights in communism almost
> >> > >> all rejected their Judaism.  
>
> >> > >More pedantry. Jewish chauvinism is not tied to Judaism as a religion.
> >> > >Some have seen communism as a secular heresy of Judaism.
>
> >> > Those people are idiots.  Marx did not think of himself as a Jew.  - Hide quoted text -
>
> >> > - Show quoted text -
>
> >> The reason I stopped any interaction with
> >> this antisemite is that he does not have a
> >> living mind.
>
> >> He has a disease from which all of his posts
> >> flow.  While people who can think are
> >> discussing whether Hitler's syphilis caused
> >> his megalomania he is digging among theatre
> >> critics in the hope that they will make his disorder
> >> look normal.  Perhaps it can be thought of as
> >> calcification of the brain.
>
> >> It is very interesting that the Kaiser's porphyria,
> >> Hitler's syphilis and that poster's antisemitism
> >> all tend in the same direction.
>
> >> Tinfoil hats fit the living and the dead.
>
> >I don't think I hate the Jews, whatever that is supposed to mean.
> >Individually I genuinely like quite a few of them.
>
> You just happen to want them to stop existing.  

Who do you think I want to stop existing?