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- From: serb@polisci.umn.edu (Scott Erb)
- Subject: Re: Colorado Civil Rights - Listen up!
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- Organization: Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota
- References: <e3TcuB2w165w@seanews.akita.com> <1earlaINN31e@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:18:07 GMT
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- In article <1earlaINN31e@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> goddard@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bart E. Goddard) writes:
-
- >In article <e3TcuB2w165w@seanews.akita.com> jbunn@seanews.akita.com
- >(John E Bunn) writes:
- >> Educate yourselves and reject intolerance in any kind.
- >>
- >> JB
- >>
-
- >Yet another close-minded, ill-informed post, which does nothing but
- >call names. This is typical college sophomore thinking. If someone
- >disagrees with you on any point, he must disagree on all points,
- >therefore, he must agree with Hitler, Stalin, Satan, the KKK, Joe
- >MacCarthy, Madeline O'Hare, Barry Manilow, etc. Therefore he is less
- >than human and you have the right to "re-educate" him to your way of
- >thinking. It's amazing that someone would try to hide this sort of
- >thinking behind a campaign for tolerance, diversity and freedom. Take
- >this drivel somewhere else, like alt.big.brother.
-
- How can asking people to educate themselves (not get re-educated by someone,
- please note) be considered closed minded or ill-informed? The trouble is,
- intolerance IS what led to Hitler, the KKK, McCarthy, etc. If intolerance
- is allowed to grow and spread, it could lead there again. I can't see how
- that statement could be called closed-minded and ill-informed. THAT charge
- of yours sounds like Orwellian doublespeak (which you should post to alt.big.
- brother). Also, calling another argument "drivel" -- whether the argument
- is good or bad -- seems to be just as demeaning as you call the other
- poster. Really, your post seemed very confusing and ill-thought out.
-