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>You want to applaud her bigotry, have at it, but quit tearing me down to  
make it seem ok.

A one car accident, Moon.  What do you expect to happen when your attempt at 
patronizing ("... I ... have had  slightly broader experience than you in 
this 
matter.") backfires turns out to be such an embarassment to you?  You stepped 
in it.  At least  have the humor to drop it gracefully.


> >It's not about me. It's about Bev using a really suck ass phrase. 

It's about your PC Soylent Green spin on what Bev said, (It's POEPLE, 
PEOPLE!)   Groups of people DO share common cultural traits and are subject 
to common 
indoctrination.  Would you go to a group of Arabs and offer them all a ham 
sandwich under the notion that they were all just PEOPLE,PEOPLE (period, full 
stop) and some of them would like ham sandwiches and some would not just like 
everybody else?  

Bev was only making the observation that a group of people, as part of their 
culture, had been indoctrinated to believe that reparations of some sort were 
fairly due them and the reason they never got them is because people of 
another race were always in charge.  It is very similar to the way libreals 
have 
been indoctrinated to view all the current financial and moral problems  on 
George Bush, so you have  a reference point.

If you think that it just a matter of everyone just being PEOPLE, PEOPLE, 
PEOPLE (period, full stop) then try going to a large evangelical gathering 
and 
take up donations for Planned Parenthood.  What would be the problem, they 
are 
just people and some would be for it and some against it. 

How dare one assume ahead of time that an Arabic person chosen at random 
would be offended at the offer of a ham sandwich  or that a ramdom 
evangelical 
fundamentalist would take umbrage at being asked to support Planned 
Parenthood!  

Groups of people DO have common biases and experiences and to lump them all 
together as PEOPLE, PEOPLE, PEOPLE (period, full stop) as if it didn't matter 
is the height and depth, the zenith and nadir, the mother and father of all 
bitory and suck ass-ed-ness.



James