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- From: goddard@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bart E. Goddard)
- Newsgroups: alt.beer
- Subject: Re: Colorado Civil Rights - Listen up!
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 19:36:49 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
- Lines: 33
- Message-ID: <1ebhkhINN43b@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>
- References: <serb.158@polisci.umn.edu>
- Reply-To: goddard@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bart E. Goddard)
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- In article <serb.158@polisci.umn.edu> serb@polisci.umn.edu (Scott Erb)
- writes:
- > 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
-
- No, just the opposite, it was led to by *tolerance* of the existance of
- Nazi's and Klansmen. THE POINT IS THAT _TOLERANCE_ IS JUST A CATCHWORD
- AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ARGUMENT.
-
- > 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.
-
- Because it advocates speach (and thought) control (duh!), which is
- certainly closed minded, and assumes that any counter to the gay
- rights movement is based on fear/hate of differences, which is the
- ill-informed part.
-
- > of yours sounds like Orwellian doublespeak
- MINE? (sheesh!)
-
- >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.
-
- Granted, if it were an argument at all. It wasn't, it was just
- name calling, which is drivel.
-
- Please use e-mail.
-
- Bart
-