Talk:Edward Hooper

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[edit] Anti-Semitism?

Re: "He believes in his theory so strongly that he even shows hints of anti-semitism (and ignorance, because Koprowski isn't Jewish) when he claims in an article that Koprowski misled him in interviews in order to avoid exposing what Hooper believes to be true:

'I had been exposed to a combination of Koprowski's charm and chutzpah.'[3]"

Can't Gentiles have chutzpah too? I didn't know they were that deprived.

[edit] Weblink

The removal seems justified, however I added the main page of the removed citation ("http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/documents/AIDS/Hooper04/BM14.html") to bibliography, because it contains a lot of material.

I'm sorry but to accuse a man of anti-semetism because of the single word you mentioned does not stand the test of hatred towards jews. The word "Chutzpah" is comman in the english langauge and is not racist in anyway much less anything derogatory. The definition of the word chutzpah from wikpedia itself is that of

Chutzpah is the quality of audacity, for good or for bad. The word derives from the Hebrew word ḥuṣpâ (חֻצְפָּה), meaning "insolence," "audacity," and "impertinence"; though the modern English usage of the word has taken on a wider spectrum of meaning, having been popularized through vernacular use, film, literature, and television.

I dont see anything anti-semetic about the use of that word in the context you mentioned