| אמת מארץ תצמח חיים סבתו הוא בן למשפחת רבנים מחלב אשר בסוריה, היא אר"ץ - ארם צובא | החסד והדין, כפי שראינו בשיעורים שעסקו בספירות אלו, מהווים שני ערכים קוטביים הבאים לידי ביטוי גם בפנייתו של אלוקים כלפי האדם וגם בפנייתו של האדם כלפי אלוקים |
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| ו וַיֹּאמֶר ה' אֶל-מֹשֶׁה לֵּאמֹר: ז כֵּן בְּנוֹת צְלָפְחָד דֹּבְרֹת - נָתֹן תִּתֵּן לָהֶם אֲחֻזַּת נַחֲלָה בְּתוֹךְ אֲחֵי אֲבִיהֶם; וְהַעֲבַרְתָּ אֶת-נַחֲלַת אֲבִיהֶן לָהֶן | Sontag's description was acceptable because whites are oppressors and criticism of them is therefore justified and indeed necessary as a means of combating the oppression they are responsible for |
But Smith was, alas, quite capable of composing anti-Semitism for himself: few modern readers would fail to be shocked by this passage in a letter he wrote to H.
| Again I choose my words carefully: his verse, not his poetry | That, at least, is the modern reading, whereby all prejudices against officially oppressed groups say everything about the prejudiced and nothing about the prejudicee |
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| Reading male homosexuality "against Oedipus", as Deleuze and Guattari have taught him to do, the maverick French psychoanalyst Hocquenghem explains that the very idea of homosexual desire is meaningless: "Properly speaking, desire is no more homosexual than heterosexual | In short, the oppressed never incite prejudice by their behavior, and Jews, above all, do not incite anti-Semitism |