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- From: gazit@duke.cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit)
- Newsgroups: alt.feminism,soc.men
- Subject: Moral Standards (Was Re: Men Male Basheres)
- Message-ID: <727986501@lear.cs.duke.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:28:22 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.050942.28023@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Followup-To: alt.feminism,soc.men
- Organization: The Immoral Minority
- Lines: 31
-
- In article <1993Jan20.050942.28023@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- farthing@leland.Stanford.EDU (ljf) writes:
-
- >privilege. I don't hold you responsible for being born white, but I
- >do hold you responsible for seeing a racist system and not doing
- >anything about it.
-
- Do you apply similar attitude for other cases?
-
- E.g.
-
- 1) Iraq invaded Kuwait, and burned all its oil wells. As a result Mexico's
- profit from oil sales went *up*, and Mexico did nothing to reverse the
- situation in Kuwait. Do you hold Mexico responsible for what Iraq did
- in Kuwait?
-
- 2) Lincoln S&L owners cheated quite a few investors. Now the assets of
- this (and others) S&L are sold in a fire-sale by the RTC. Do you hold
- the people who benefit from the low prices of the S&Ls bankrupt
- properties responsible for people's loses from S&L mess?
-
- 3) The sexist draft of the 60's and early 70's hurt men. Women benefited
- because they were not drafted. Do you hold the women who could be
- drafted, if the draft was not sexist, responsible for that sexist
- draft a system?
-
- Hillel gazit@cs.duke.edu
-
- "Fuck this. I don't subscribe to it and I don't think I should take
- the shit for being responsible for it because I was born with a penis."
- --- Eric Pepke
-