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- From: libwca@emory.edu (Bill Anderson)
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- Subject: Re: PC lives
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- Date: 29 Dec 92 01:39:44 GMT
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- nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle) writes:
- : libwca@emory.edu (Bill Anderson) writes:
- : >green@plains.NoDak.edu (Brad Green) writes:
- : >: PC is alive and well, don't believe otherwise.
- :
- : >Mock trial of Christopher Columbus? Well, that certainly has a
- : >PC ring to it. Did the "trial" do some harm that you know of?
- :
- : To the extent that it is an attempt to revise history, I believe that
- : it does a disservice to anyone who buys into the revised version of history.
- :
- : >Was it not merely an attention-getting ploy/historical inquiry?
- :
- : It was certainly an attention-getting ploy, but as far as historical
- : inquiry is concerned, I'm not convinced.
- :
- : >Is Columbus, for some reason, off-limits to critics?
- :
- : No, however I believe that native American advocates will lose
- : credibility if they attempt to blame Colombus for things which were
- : beyond his control.
- :
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- : Nathan Engle Software Juggler
- : Psychology Department Indiana University
- : nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu nengle@copper.ucs.indiana.edu
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- I agree with you here, Nathan- however, the fact is that
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- Columbus Day has come to be a celebration of the European conquest
- of the America's; the mock trial (of which I know nothing, by the
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- way) may have been intended as a counterweight to this, and a way
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- of expressing alternative views.
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- Bill u
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