Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ulysses!allegra!alice!rabbit!jj From: jj@rabbit.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion,net.politics,net.flame Subject: Re: The Falwellite Frenzy Message-ID: <2622@rabbit.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 12:19:31 EST Article-I.D.: rabbit.2622 Posted: Thu Mar 22 12:19:31 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Mar-84 20:53:18 EST References: <2056@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 52 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 sideof 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