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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: talk.politics.usa.conservative (Was: Re: RFD: talk.politics.patriot)
- Message-ID: <id.1H3W.XKE@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <BzoFr6.5Bw@polaris.async.vt.edu> <id.US1W.YS3@ferranti.com> <BzqrD5.8JC@polaris.async.vt.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:26:30 GMT
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- In article <BzqrD5.8JC@polaris.async.vt.edu> jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr) writes:
- > Which is why I recommend putting the word "usa" in the name. That way,
- > any Australians who have an idea that conservative means "green" or
- > "nature" politics will look at it and say "'talk.politics.usa.con-
- > servative'. Well, that's a group that's about American politics. Let's go
- > back to aus.conserve and hang out."
-
- You still don't get it. The conservation movement in the US was *started*
- by people who referred to themselves as conservatives. And they meant
- something pretty close to what *some* of the people in the U.S. today
- who refer to themselves as conservatives mean. The conservative and the
- liberal "movements" are no such thing: they're loose alliances of convenience
- between groups with often radically differing views.
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