Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00411)

"Steve Stubbs " wrote:
> If the statement was verbal it was slander and not libel, which is
> shy the small verdict. 

The jury decided it was libel. The relatively small reward was more
indicative of the fact of damages; that almost nobody really believed Al
Sharpton.

> I listened to some woman the other night
> bewailing the fact that nobody believes Tawana Brawley but they do
> believe the Central Park Jogger, who ended up in a coma, was
> attacked. 

The Central Park jogger has no memory of the attack; all she testified
to was the degree to which her injuries disabled her. And Tawana Brawley
refused to testify under oath.

> > Tony Brown (gives much
> > the same message as Farrakhan, but minus the racism and anti-
> Semitism,
> > although he is a bit out there in his anti-Masonry).
> 
> Farrakhan is not anti-Semitic. He just hates Jews, that's all. 

Sorry. anti-Semitic is a euphemism for "Jew hater". A bunch of Jew
haters have expanded the meaning in recent years to include Arabs, so
that they can say that they're not "anti-Semitic". But that's just
semantics, and the only place it has in a reasonable argument is to
specify the term "Jew hater".

> Political correcness nowadays is a real bear.

If it needs the adjective "political", then it isn't correct.

Bart