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- From: sfjr@wam.umd.edu (Steve Russell)
- Subject: Re: White Feather Campaign
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.154748.22275@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:47:48 GMT
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- Newsgroups: alt.feminism
- From: DPIROT@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA
- Subject: The White Feather Campaign
- Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
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- DPIROT@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA writes:
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- Several 'womens groups' have been reported in the media as
- expressing outrage at the media reports of systematized rape camps
- in Bosnia, and are demanding military intervention in Bosnia to
- bring and end to the practice.
- As has already been pointed out in several postings, the reports
- are similar to the stories that were circulated in 1914, during the
- German invasion of Belgium about nuns being raped and babies
- bayonetted by 'the Boche', that were used to stir up war sentiment
- and encourage young men to volunteer for military service, stories
- that were later found to be fictitious.
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- Lets not forget the one about about Iraqui soilders
- pulling infants from incubators.
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- It is likely, judging from the lack of confirming evidence and from
- the opinions of aid workers in Bosnia that the reports are greatly
- exaggerated, that the stories have been made up in order to stir up
- sympathy for a Balkan war.
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- As I posted before, Im undecided. However, assuming these
- reports were true would it wouldnt justify destroying tens
- of thousands more lives, environments, resources etc.
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- Recently the Bosnian government accused
- General Lewis MacKenzie, the Canadian former commander of the UN
- peace keeping forces, of raping and killing four Bosnian girls.
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- Jesus Christ! Thanks, I didnt know this one.
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- However, even if there were some truth to the allegations, what
- seems to be happening is that the feminists are prepared to
- sacrifice the lives of young American men in order to protect the
- virtue of women.
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- I dont know if they look at it that way though that might
- be the end result. They may simply be outraged at the
- victimization and want it to stop.
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- This seems to me to be a major step backward.
- What will we see next - feminists in the street handing out white
- feathers to young men to shame them into going to war to defend
- womankind from the Boche?
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- I think that is stretching it far. Good points otherwise.
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- Don't fall for it, guys.
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- No need to worry.
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- Steve R
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