From: Xela@yabbs
To: ching@yabbs
Subject: well
Date: Tue Mar 29 23:29:18 1994

I have read the book many times, and I still believe that the book makes 
no reference to racism.  Hatred, yes.  Racism, no.  You can interprete 
scenes of hatred as racism, but then again anybody can claim hatred is 
manifested in other means, such as hatred of different sexxual 
preferences, or religion (as the bookk mentioned, Goldstein was remarked 
as having a "Jewish" facial characteristics, as if his relgion was 
something to be defiled).  Hatred shows itself in many forms in 1984, but 
I do not be,lieve that racism is one of those forms.

But not to nit-pick your main point, which was that hatred is one 
mechanism for the preservation of totalitarian State.  Which I agree with. 
 :)

-Alex