There is a very sharp analogy to be made with the fixation on gay rights of our era, & the ~1850s - 1870s "Jewish question"
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Please don't be historically illiterate & confuse that once neutral term with the so-called "Final Solution" to that question
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The q was, succinctly: How could a stateless people, Jews, be regularized into society, in a background of nationalistic consolidation?
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The key point is that this question had some serious intellectual prestige in its day, everyone opined on it & rode it for their own ends
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Marx, half-Jewish, wrote on it. Satre wrote on it. Nietzsche had thoughts on it. You could not be an intellectual & not have an opinion
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@Billare pretty sure karl was 100% ethnically jewish. his father converted to lutheranism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx#Childhood_and_early_education:_1818.E2.80.931835 … just sayin'. (^_^)1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
@Billare (you know i'm a stickler for ethnic designations. (~_^) )
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