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- Subject: Re: talk.politics.usa.conservative (Was: Re: RFD: talk.politics.patriot)
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- From: wbralick@afit.af.mil (Will Bralick)
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:30:11 GMT
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- In article <BzqrD5.8JC@polaris.async.vt.edu> jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr) writes:
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- | 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."
-
- But conservatism isn't just an American phenomenon (Edmund Burke is
- credited (by Russell Kirk) as being the first modern conservative
- and he was Scottish). Most American conservatives would agree that
- Mrs. Thatcher is a conservative. Isn't the political party she headed
- called the Conservative Party? Did the Aussies think that Mrs. Thatcher
- was a Green? I personally prefer that the scope of the discussion not
- be (implicitly) limited to the US.
-
- | If there were a us. hierarchy, I'd say "put this group there." But as
- | mail trickles in from people explaining the us. hierarchy to me, I'd say
- | that it's not real likely to be a functioning hierarchy anytime soon.
- | Thus, the least ambiguous name would be "talk.politics.usa.conservative".
-
- Yet another consideration is that conservatism is not just about
- politics -- it has a cultural focus, too. In the West this is usually
- tied to the canon of Western thought (cf. the Great Books of the Western
- World), real (tm) art and music ;-), ethics and morals, etc. So the
- *.politics.* hierarchy might not be appropriate, either.
-
- So, how about talk.culture.conservative? Culture is the broader term and
- this formulation would avoid confusion with the politicized conservation
- movement.
-
-
- Regards,
-
- --
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- Will Bralick Speaking _only_ for myself.
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