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Old 01-01-2013, 17:19   #302
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Kapos.
I seem to remember that, in one of her books, Hannah Arendt mentioned the Jewish shopkeepers in Germany who were quick to sell yellow Stars of David when the law was enacted. There seems to be an "appeasement gene" in some people. Or a suicide gene.

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