Subject: Re: The Whoring of the Mother Tongue
From: Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 23 2000 - 21:35:06 EST
Aaron Brager wrote:
> Even though Merchant of Venice is about racism, not money lending? Are ya
> sure you understood her?
Anti-semitism and racism are not the same thing. Racism is predicated
on race, while anti-semitism is predicated on religious background,
which itself is often independent of race. If _The Merchant of
Venice_ is indeed "about" either one, it would be anti-semitism, not
racism.
-- Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu - * Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message * UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH
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