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- From: wilder@nx03.mik.uky.edu (jeff wilder)
- Subject: Re: Re. Integrity
- References: <1992Nov16.220248.27226@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:41:51 GMT
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- In <1992Nov16.220248.27226@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> pat@sphinx.phys.Virginia.EDU (pat walsh) writes:
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- | Seriously, I have strong doubts
- |about Eleanor (Clift?)'s thesis because 1) history, in the guise of Jimmy
- |Carter's and Lyndon Johnson's administrations, suggests that we'll soon find
- |out just how evenhanded the media can be and 2) an awful lot of young people
- |these days are very conservative indeed!
-
- Well, as a "non-traditional" college sophomore (I'm *ancient*!), I prefer
- to comfort myself with the belief that the young people you reference in
- #2 are just too damn stupid to know any better, and might, as their educa-
- tion progresses, learn to develop opinions, rather that adopting Mommy and
- Daddy's.
-
- Case in point: the sophomore Limbot who runs the editorial page at our
- school paper. In a recent article, one of the few lately in which he
- hasn't been quoting Mommy and Daddy and his Frat brothers' opinions
- trashing President-elect Bill, he referred to the Native American
- population of the US as "indigent." I'm pretty sure (at least, I *hope*)
- he meant "indigenous. Sure, anybody's entitled to a mistake, but this
- is only one example from a record that would make Dan himself proud.
-
- You know that optimism I expressed in my first paragraph?
-
- Scratch it.
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- | Jeff W uk06666@ukpr.uky.edu | Meddle not in the affairs of cats, for they |
- | Wilder & wilder@mik.uky.edu | are subtle, and will piss on your cyberdeck.|
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