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- From: irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Irvine)
- Subject: Re: [misc.activism.progressive] Clinton Office Requests Comments
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:21:10 GMT
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- In article <1i8r1lINNlke@pongo.West.Sun.COM> johnch@smaug.West.Sun.COM (John Chandler [Contractor]) writes:
- >In article <30DEC199221400138@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu> mitcheec@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (Elliott Mitchell) writes:
- >>
- >>Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that political conservatives seem
- >>more likely to take up new technology than liberals. Liberals seem to be
- >>neo-Luddites in this respect.
- >>
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- I would say the *perception* of Liberals is such. You see all the "New
- Age-y" and "Tree Hugger" stuff of the Environmental Extremists and it makes
- it very easy to peg all Left-wingers [even moderate ones] as anti-technology.
-
- I grant that 4 out of 5 Anti-technology activists are far left, and probably
- are refugees from the now discredited Communist movements. But thats only my
- personal opinion... :)
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- >I doubt that either your tendencies in phone ownership nor your
- >beliefs about valid sample sizes generalize to liberals as a class.
- >Your perspective on Rush *may* be widely held among liberals, but he
- >make *me* think about how valuable it is to be able to select another
- >station. (How long do you think he'd last on Sprockets?)
-
- He definately couldn't touch the Monkey! :)
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