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- From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Subject: Re: [misc.activism.progressive] Clinton Office Requests Comments
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 04:49:52 GMT
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- Bruce.Hayden.Of.285/1@ivgate.omahug.org (Bruce Hayden Of 285/1) writes:
- >(From: bhayden@teal.csn.org (Bruce Hayden))
- >(Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.)
- >wkaufman@us.oracle.com (William Kaufman) writes:
- >> If Usenet is any reasonable sample, though, there *does* seem to be
- >>a relation between being a programmer and a libertarian. I don't think
- >>anyone can prove a definite correlation; but my guess is that the two
- >>are related by the fact that programmers are overwhelmingly white,
-
- >I do not think that it is really because programmers are white, educated,
- >upper-middle-class. These characteristics would usually correspond to
-
- >I will agree that you do have a large number of libertarians in the
- >programming ranks. I don't have any good ideas of why, but you can
-
- Because computer networks are one of the few places you can actually
- find out about libertarianism. I was fairly well read before getting
- on here (Economist, WSJ, all three weekly newsrags, New Republic,
- National Review) and I'd really never heard of them except when they
- were mentioned in passing (usually in "Lyndon LaRouche is a
- Libertarian" type blatant errors).
-
- Reporters are Democrats and Republicans. They don't write about what
- they don't think they know about, and when they do they usually get it
- wrong. The computer networks are one of the only places you can get
- complete information and even see the subject discussed, and computer
- types naturally are more likely to be on computer networks.
- --
- I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman
- Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church,
- nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church. - Thomas Paine
-