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- From: awerling@nmsu.edu (WERLING)
- Subject: Re: All discrimination is not equal -- or wrong
- In-Reply-To: dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu's message of Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:42:03 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 06:41:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep1.004203.22844@ncsu.edu> dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
-
- > In article <AWERLING.92Aug31165912@dante.nmsu.edu>
- > awerling@nmsu.edu (WERLING) writes:
-
- > > I missed this entire conversation, but your use of the words in CAPS
- > > ("no" and "nobody") lead me to instantly want to point out that there
- > > are no absolutes...there are hypothetical reasons why someone would
- > > "deserve" to be called just about anything.
-
- > Can you name some? I can't think of any situations where a person
- > could "deserve" to be called a name with such clear racist overtones.
-
- If a black person were to use their race/color to intimidate or to
- persecute someone else, then they would deserve such a comment, even
- though the race as a whole or any *other* black individuals do *not*
- deserve that comment. Purely hypothetical. I'm always on Absolutism Alert.
- I'm not attempting to defend Humphrey's remarks, or to even get into
- the specifics. Just following my own personal drive. :)
-
- Thanks for reposting the article, by the way. I agree with you that
- in that context it was completely inappropriate.
-
- --
- Andrew Werling awerling@nmsu.edu yip@acca.nmsu.edu
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