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- From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr)
- Newsgroups: news.groups
- Subject: talk.politics.usa.conservative (Was: Re: RFD: talk.politics.patriot)
- Message-ID: <BzoFr6.5Bw@polaris.async.vt.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 20:04:17 GMT
- References: <visser.724451724@convex.convex.com> <a_rubin.724456483@dn66> <id.OF0W.KA@ferranti.com>
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- In article <id.OF0W.KA@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- >In article <a_rubin.724456483@dn66> a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin) writes:
- >> > How about talk.politics.reactionary as an alternative?
- >> misc.activism.{reactionary,conservative}?
- >I think that a *moderated* misc.activism.conservative would be an excellent
- >idea, along with an unmoderated talk.politics.conservative.
- >
- >(me, I always thought conservative meant, you know, conservative. Like the
- > Nature Conservancy, and the conservation movement... but if they want to
- > redefine this word I'll happily let them join the progressives in their
- > mutilation of the language)
-
- Oh, come ON, Peter, don't be such a bleeding rocket scientist. Assuming
- you live in the USA, where has your mind BEEN for the last twelve years
- while we've had Presidents in the White House who only used the word
- "conservative" about every fifth word, and used it to mean
- right-of-the-political-center?
-
- Seems to me that *you're* the one who needs to get in line here and stop
- trying to redefine a word that has a clear meaning to most people.
-