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- From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr)
- Newsgroups: news.groups,talk.politics.misc,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: talk.politics.usa.conservative (Was: Re: RFD: talk.politics.patriot)
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- Date: 23 Dec 92 00:22:13 GMT
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- In article <BzoDI0.8EA@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
- >jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr) wrote:
- >> Again, I think people should stop tarring the right wing with the brush of
- >> "retrogressive" or "larouche". I consider myself moderate to liberal but
- >> find it surprising that people who apparently are my ideological peers
- >> somehow don't feel that the people on the other side of center have a
- >> right to their views. Remember the old "I disagree with what you say, but
- >> will defend to the death your right to say it" line? It applies here.
- >
- >For crying out loud. How the heck am I supposed to interpret a proposal
- >like Brian's? I genuinely do not have the faintest clue whether the
- >"patriot movement" is a lobbying organization with a membership of a
- >million and paid staff of 50 or something that exists only in his brain
- >after watching Red Dawn once too often. If he really meant something like
- >"talk.politics.republican" (your interpretation, though his proposal for
- >the Gold Standard as an issue is not something I've heard of them making
- >recently), why on earth didn't he say that? His proposals *do* cover the
- >range of outfits I mentioned; if he means something more specific, it's
- >for him to say what it is.
-
- Well, read the newspaper. I've read in the paper and seen on TV where
- Republican candidates and "members of conservative think tanks" decry our
- leaving the gold standard as some crypto-liberal-Democratic plot to destroy
- the world and call for us to return to it. I can't speak for Brian, not
- *being* Brian, but to me, Brian's proposals sounded like he was calling for
- a conservative politics talk group.
-
- >> Given that the Republican party and right-wing organizations such as the
- >> NRA aren't suffering for membership, I think a USENET group called
- >> talk.politics.usa.conservative would be read and used by a lot of people.
- >
- >Well, as other people have pointed out, there are already lots of
- >newsgroups devoted to that kind of politics: talk.politics.guns or
- >alt.individualism, for two, and (de facto) talk.politics.misc. So if this
- >one's different, what makes it so?
-
- Again, the old "well, there's a misc group, talk about it there" argument.
- Why don't we discuss *everything* in soc.misc, sci.misc, comp.misc, etc.
- etc. etc?
-
- I would not be a participating reader of talk.politics.usa.conservative,
- strongly disagreeing with most of the stands Brian's original proposal
- seemed to outline as topics for discussion, but I certainly think there
- would be hundreds of people who *would* participate.
-