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Mike 03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:11 PM Original message |
Poll question: Did you know what Blood Libel meant before today? |
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justiceischeap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
1. Amazingly, she was actually able to educate some of us (eom) |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:14 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. "she" as in whoever wrote that for her. |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:17 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. LOL! Perfect. I could not agree more!!!! |
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monmouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. And that alone convinces me she did not write that speech..I want |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
2. I knew, and have known for years. But, I also know that few |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
3. nope |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
4. Yes; I learned it in college in both a religion class and a Literature of the Holocaust class. |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
7. No! I wasn't at all so I've appreciated the explanation and history they've been |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:30 PM Response to Reply #7 |
27. Like it was said above . . . maybe someone should ask her. |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:42 PM Response to Reply #27 |
37. I'm sure she's been informed by now but we'll never know since no one will |
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Hamlette (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:45 PM Response to Reply #7 |
40. the "usual suspects" have been using blood libel for a couple of days now |
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arcane1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
8. I was familiar with the concept, but not the actual term n/t |
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prolesunited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
9. I didn't |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
10. Not exactly |
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mrs_p (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
11. is there an in-between option? |
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el_bryanto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:21 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. That's where I am - I had heard of it |
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AspenRose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:21 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Yes |
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Ineeda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
13. I didn't, but |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:19 PM Response to Original message |
14. Yes, but half my family is Jewish, and I grew up in a predominantly Jewish community. |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
15. That's why it's important to be involved in any speech preparation |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:22 PM Response to Original message |
18. No, I had never heard the term before today |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
19. I didn't know that was its "official" name |
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TygrBright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
20. Oh, yes I did. And when I heard this my jaw dropped in disbelief at the magnitude of the shitstorm |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
21. Technically, I still don't know. |
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riverwalker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
22. yes |
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Journeyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
23. Well yes, but then, I've read much of the work of Hannah Arendt . . . |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
24. If you are a jew, you should know, if you studied history |
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Gothmog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:34 PM Response to Reply #24 |
33. Agreed |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
25. I'm still not sure if I know what it means. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
26. Yep. |
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chaplainM (744 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:31 PM Response to Original message |
28. I actually had confused it with the "blood curse" |
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wickerwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:31 PM Response to Original message |
29. Yes, from my Medieval English Lit class. |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
30. I didn't know it's meaning. But I knew it was related to anti-semiticism. n/t |
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ismnotwasm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
31. No |
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Crankie Avalon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
32. Yes I knew. I think most people have heard the term but were fuzzy as to precisely what it meant... |
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Joe the Revelator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
34. I'm Jewish and I knew. |
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scarletwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
35. Yes, I've known about it for so long I can't remember how I first learned it. |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
36. I had heard it used before, but I wasn't sure exactly what it referenced. |
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The Midway Rebel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
38. I knew the concept, never heard it called blood libel though. I voted no. |
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Raksha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
39. I'm Jewish, so of course I knew. |
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MarthaM (73 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
41. I knew it, but ... |
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MindPilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
42. For all practical purposes no. |
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Dulcinea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
43. I had never heard it before. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
44. As a Jew it was drilled into us very young |
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Uzybone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 04:06 PM Response to Original message |
45. I didn't, but whoever wrote that speech did |
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Behind the Aegis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
46. I must say I am very surprised how many people didn't know what this means. |
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SteveG (833 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
47. Yes, I learned about it as a teenager |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-12-11 04:16 PM Response to Original message |
48. I did not know but there is a good reason for that. I am German/Amer. and |
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