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- From: gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch)
- Subject: Anacin (was: Re: Are Whites Worse Off in the Deep South?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.142727.29358@panix.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:27:27 GMT
- References: <1e91paINNaqh@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <1992Nov17.213701.22286@panix.com> <1ec9ovINNi1d@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
- Organization: mydog in exile
- Followup-To: alt.feminism
- Lines: 54
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- gf:
- | >...even if a slave-owner were relatively less happy
- | >than his slaves, it would not make slavery right.
-
- schultz@unixg.ubc.ca (Stewart Schultz) writes:
- | I'm afraid that this particular ethical question is not relevant to your
- | assertion that white people in the Deep South are worse off than black
- | people.
-
- gf:
- | >By the way, the follow-up line, at least on the article
- | >that arrived here, was set to soc.culture.african-
- | >american exclusively. How come? Did you think we had
- | >wandered away from feminism entirely?
-
- ss:
- | I'm not discussing feminism or gender, but rather your assessment that
- | whites are generally, globally, worse off. Cross-posted again and
- | followups set to soc.culture.african.american (if readers there are not
- | interested in this subject, I'm happy to desist).
-
- If you're going to play rhetorical games, I suggest
- you be more accurate about what your opponent -- you do
- treat those you discuss things with as opponents -- said
- in the first place. You were attempting to prove than
- women were better off than men because they had better
- happiness quotients than men. One of the things I was
- trying to point out was that being in a dominant social
- or political position did not necessarily appear to make
- one happier than those dominated. I alluded briefly to
- the pre-Civil Rights South during a specific period of
- observation, 1960-1964, and I did not say that blacks
- were better off than whites except in a very limited
- sense.
-
- You have transformed that to "whites are [presumably in
- the present] generally, globally, worse off." I've quoted
- part of the transformation above, where we fade from the
- Deep South to the world in one easy step.
-
- Now, either you can't read, or you can't think, or you're
- dishonest. I don't see how the transformation you made
- can be a simple mistake, since it consists of more than
- one step, and since you cross-posted to another newsgroup
- where I suppose you thought the transformed assertion
- might cause trouble. All in all, it's quite a
- performance, especially considering the laboratory coat
- you donned at the beginning -- epidemiological studies
- and all that. Maybe you should sell patent medicines on
- television.
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