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From: jj@rabbit.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.politics,net.flame
Subject: Re: The Falwellite Frenzy
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Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 12:19:31 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 22 12:19:31 1984
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Sigh, the stereotypes live on inside the article complaining about
the stereotypes.   One of them is that those who oppose the
(im)Moral(not)Majorty are liberals.  I've lambasted the MM
several times on this net, usually in detail, and for
specific actions that represent the abridgement of freedoms
or the substitution of religious for legal principles.

None the less, I suspect that few net readers will accuse me of being
a "flaming liberal".   (Well?  Do any of you? :-)

I object violently to stereotypes for several reasons.  The most
fundamental are ethical, but since ethics never afflicted most
of the net, (NOT you, Paul, you are at least consistant, and
you argue, as opposed to shout, shame I can't mail to you...)
let me point out a reason that involves mere self-interest:
	When the Grenadian liberation (yeah, I'm going to use
revolutionary terminology)  was aided by the U.S. government,
I was probably the foremost supporter of that invasion on this
net.  I was labelled as an "unrepentitant conservative", and there
was a long debate about whether or not conservatives should
be considered human, with lots of accusations flying back and
forth accusing either me or the other side  of stupidity, moral terpitude, and many other things.  
Several people faked cancellation messages for my articles
in order to shut me up, and we considered linking my mailbox to
/dev/null for a week to keep the deliberate mail misusers
from crashing rabbit by filling up our spool filesystem.
The upshot of this damnfool discussion was the use of
"rabbit!jj" as an example of the worst example of a net user for
about six months or so.  

Well.  Now I've been sucked into the abortion debate.  Again,
I'm using EXACTLY the same ethical basis, (defense of personal
freedom)  but NOW I'm the "damned satanic communist liberal" 
who "would eat dead babies for breakfast".  Hell!  Now, I'm a liberal of the most extreme bent.

Will you all make up your minds???  I didn't even know
that teddy bears were active in politics.  :-)

The next time that you use a stereotype, try to remember that
the victim of your stereotype is probably a thinking being who
will both be hurt by, and resent, your prejudice.
-- 
TEDDY BEARS ARE NICER THAN PEOPLE--HUG YOURS TODAY!
(If you go out in the woods today ... )
 
(allegra,harpo,ulysses)!rabbit!jj