Cueball
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Legal disabilities against Jews in metropolitan France continued into the the mid 19th century. Algerian Jews were not awarded French citzenship until 1870. A year later official emancipation was finally instituted in Germany. Ok, that's a half generation before Hitler was wetting his baby clothes, not precisely when he was wetting his baby clothes.

That is enough prevarication on point. Laws are only part of the process of social integration. Social prejudice and indeed persecution continued despite laws: your entire case for "marginalization" rests on this point. Your entire case for the exceptional "marginalization" of Jews in Canada rest upon factors other than legal grounds. For if it didn't then Dr Conway's point about Canada being a secular society would stand on the law alone.

Jews as an ethnic group are one of the better established minorities within the spectrum of the white Canadian rulling class. That is not evidence of marginalization. It is the opposite.

So, no your arguement is not about law but about social prejudice which results in marginalization. Jews are no more marginalized in Canadian society, either in law, or in practice than Italian Canadian Catholics, and in fact, in comparison some other communities, emphasizing the plight of Jews in Canada as if it is exceptionally arduous or comparable to that of 19th Century Europe is spurious to the point that it makes a mockery of what we mean when we say "marginalized".


Canadian Jews condemn suppression of criticism of Israel By: Unionist (132 replies) March 15, 2009 - 3:34pm
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  • Re: Canadian Jews condemn suppression of criticism of Israel By: Naci_Sey (Mar 16 2009 - 12:05pm)
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  • Star Spangled Canadian By: aka Mycroft (Mar 16 2009 - 9:30am)
  • That may be true, SSC, but By: Unionist (Mar 16 2009 - 9:30am)
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  • DrConway wrote:Where were By: Unionist (Mar 16 2009 - 8:26am)
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  • Re: Canadian Jews condemn suppression of criticism of Israel By: RevolutionPlease (Mar 15 2009 - 7:41pm)
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  • It may surprise people to By: Stockholm (Mar 15 2009 - 7:48pm)
  • Well, the Globe's refusal to By: sgm (Mar 15 2009 - 7:33pm)
  • I too have read this letter By: Eliezer Zusken (Mar 15 2009 - 6:47pm)
  • Re: Canadian Jews condemn suppression of criticism of Israel By: remind (Mar 15 2009 - 6:20pm)
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