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- From: k206027@smog.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE (Bakayaroo Banzai)
- Subject: Re: Here's why I love this guy...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.090856.28171@news.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE>
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- References: <17NOV199213391854@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu> <p9kql9c@lynx.unm.edu> <18NOV199208462066@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 09:08:56 GMT
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- In article <18NOV199208462066@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu> mitcheec@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (Elliott Mitchell) writes:
- >In article <p9kql9c@lynx.unm.edu>,
- >hagerjd@leo.unm.edu (John D. Hager) writes...
- >
- [.....]
-
- >
- >Well, I must admit that I am simply a 47-year-old white male, one who has
- >seen only the slightest of discrimination against me (in my earlier years,
- >when my hair was bright red) and who has had almost no obstacles placed in
- >my way.
- >
- >That doesn't stop me from understanding that people who are not like me
- >have encountered totally different circumstances, oweing largely to the
- >fact that they are not like me.
- >
- >My point is, I have broken loose from the blinders that white-males seem to
- >be born with, (to some extent and not, I will freely admit, as much as I
- >would like) so why can't thEwIndBag?
- >
- I'm sorry but I find these last two statements to be unbearably pompous
- and self-righteous. Maybe this was not your intent when you wrote them
- but they come across to me as if you are soliciting for personal worship
- as some sort of "New White Male". I don't think anyone here disagrees
- about the fact that minorities have been brutally persecuted in this
- country and continue to be discriminated against. What people disagree
- on is how the wrongs should be righted.
-
- I'm a white male and I *have* been discriminated and harassed (i'm 5'2").
- I have been called names since I was 5, discriminated against for
- promotions and been beaten up simply because of my size. Nevertheless,
- I have built a career, raised a family, and live a satisfying life.
- My grandparents were poor Sicilians who came over on the boat and
- were hated and discriminated against even by fellow Italians. This
- ongoing scapegoating of White Males for all of America's ills is
- ludicrous and self-defeating. It's just a symptom of denial coming
- from people who want to change the rules to favor themselves. Rather
- than climb a mountain they simply want to blow it up and walk through
- the rubble.
-
- As for Rush he certainly can be an ass at times but like all human
- beings he occasionally speaks the truth. Personally, I don't find
- him to be any more obnoxious than many of the people he lampoons.
- I certainly don't find him to be a hate-monger or a Nazi. These
- words are rapidly losing any real descriptive value thanks to their
- continued mis/overuse by people such as yourself. As for being *divisive*
- anyone who issues a dissenting opinion could be said to be divisive.
- Your inference that Rush is somehow less of a person than you because
- you've "broken loose from the blinders" would be hilarious if it weren't
- so pathetically self-serving. If I agree with Rush occasionally does
- that automatically make me a blindered White Male?
-
- BTW, If you'd like to meet some *real* White Nazi Hate-mongerers with
- blinders on why don't you come over here to Germany? I could set you
- up in an asylum hotel in Rostock for a couple of nights. Come to think
- of it you could just drive on up to Idaho for a day or two. Might help
- put things in perspective for you.
-
- Matt Marchese
-