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- From: myhui@bnr.ca (Michael Hui)
- Subject: Re: Hitler (was "A rat is a pig is a.....")
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.024856.4108@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Sender: news@bmerh85.bnr.ca (Usenet News)
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa, Canada
- References: <BzFI4G.9u0@wpg.com> <1992Dec18.213529.3602@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Dec24.181444.18587@informix.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 02:48:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.181444.18587@informix.com> proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts) writes:
- >I used to think that t.p.a was a really pointless forum for debate,
- >but now I see that it serves an admirable purpose in highlighting
- >the stupidity, vacuousness, and just plain pig-ignorance of the "we
- >hate AR" crowd.
-
- Two out of three, I'll give you.
-
- But that crowd is not entirely vacuous.
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- They are trying to preserve, in their words, "the American way of life".
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- Determination to promote one's cause is an admirable personality trait.
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- But it's only admirable if one is intelligent enough to choose the
- proper cause to champion, and let outmoded ideas become history.
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- Otherwise, one's only distinguishing feature is to be pig-headedly
- determined to be dead wrong until death.
-
- That ain't going to get you into any history books.
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- Michael MY Hui ~{╨φ├≈╢≈~} myhui@bnr.ca Ottawa Canada
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