Re: Gentlemen's Agreement

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:45:33 GMT, Rita <nitany_98@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:14:41 -0700, Islander <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Last evening my wife and I watched "Gentlemen's Agreement," 1947,
Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and John Garfield. This is a story about
a journalist played by Peck who passes himself off as a Jew to write an
article about anti-Semitism in the US. He discovers the many faces of
discrimination including the passive acceptance of people including his
fiancé played by McGuire.

I found the movie to be a powerful reminder that we are all guilty of
discrimination if we passively accept it. McGuire relates the story of
a man telling an anti-Semitic joke and how the company simply ignored
him. Garfield points out that she and the rest of the people present
are guilty of passive acceptance by not challenging him.

It is true. If we do not actively challenge those who discriminate, be
it about Jews, Moslems, Blacks, Mexicans, or Gays, we are passively
accepting discrimination. We are helping to perpetuate this ugly part
of our culture. I, for one, will no longer just kill-file or ignore
those who perpetuate discrimination in this ng. I won't be complicit.
Time to call it for what it is!

Personally, I've never let anyone get by with an anti-semitic remark
without speaking up. Once "ruined" a dinner party by doing so. I do
ignore some of the nut cases ranting to this newsgroup but never
in real life. Same goes for blanket statements about the supposed
attributes of other groups. I don't have many chances to so speak
out however as I avoid like the plague the kinds of people who are
prone to this kind of thing. Some in this group equate any criticiism
of Israel with anti-semitism, but I don't think that is what you are
talking about?


We know that some of the racial and ethnic slurs here on usenet are
made simply to get a response and when I feel that's the case I do not
respond.
Thumper
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    ... Dorothy McGuire and John Garfield. ... I found the movie to be a powerful reminder that we are all guilty of discrimination if we passively accept it. ... Garfield points out that she and the rest of the people present are guilty of passive acceptance by not challenging him. ... One can criticize Israel the nation without discriminating against the Jewish race or Hebrew religion. ...
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