From: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider)
Subject: Re: <<Pompous ass
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livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey) writes:

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>>The "`little' things" above were in reference to Germany, clearly.  People
>>said that there were similar things in Germany, but no one could name any.
>That's not true.  I gave you two examples.  One was the rather
>pevasive anti-semitism in German Christianity well before Hitler
>arrived.  The other was the system of social ranks that were used
>in Imperail Germany and Austria to distinguish Jews from the rest 
>of the population.

These don't seem like "little things" to me.  At least, they are orders
worse than the motto.  Do you think that the motto is a "little thing"
that will lead to worse things?

keith