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- From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
- Subject: Re: RFD: alt.loathing.bob-dole
- Message-ID: <1edn5nINNg43@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 15:23:35 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.223106.25284@news.vanderbilt.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov17.223106.25284@news.vanderbilt.edu>
- mwmv@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu (Michael Mogensen-Vermillion) writes:
- > In article <BxvG4r.K03@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
- (Matt Hucke) writes:
- > >In article <1992Nov16.053547.984@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- dmeier@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Douglas Meier) writes:
- > >)--
- > >)Douglas C. Meier | Read the Democratic party platform,
- then
- > >)Northwestern University, ACNS | the 1933 Nazi Germany platform.
- Now note
- > >)This University is too Commie- | the similarities.
- > >
- > >Such as?
- > >
- > >Hitler was strongly anti-abortion, btw... which party takes that
- same
- > >position?
- >
- > Hitler was anti-abortion for people he labelled as Aryans.
- Non-aryans
- > were encouraged to have abortions paid for by the goverment.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^
- > I also question the validity of Mr. Meier's implication, but I'm
- not
- > sure that abortion is the best counter-example.
-
- I don't think you NEED a counter-example. The whole chain
- of reasoning is flawed. It's sort of like "Stalin was
- nice to his mother. Bill Clinton is nice to his mother.
- Therefore, a) being nice to your mother is bad, and
- b) Bill Clinton is like Stalin."
-
-
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- Jim Mann
- Stratus Computer jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
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