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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Jesus Christ people!!!
Enough!  I hate this!
If I leave will this stop?



> > 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
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