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From: "D. C. Sessions" <dcs@witsend.tnet.com>
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Subject: Re: Zionism is Racism
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In <1993Apr25.030936.21859@nysernet.org>, astein@nysernet.org (Alan Stein)  wrote:
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# "D. C. Sessions" <dcs@witsend.tnet.com> writes:
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# ># So Steve: Lets here, what IS zionism?
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# >  Assuming that you mean 'hear', you weren't 'listening': he just
# >  told you, "Zionism is Racism."  This is a tautological statement.
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# I think you are confusing "tautological" with "false and misleading."

  No, but you're right that I didn't express myself well.

  The dialog went:

   A: "Zionism is racism."
   B: "What IS zionism?"
  DC: "You weren't listening, were you?"

  In other words, the first statement *defined* a Zionism of discourse.
  Everything else was redundant.

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