Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cepu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!bmcg!cepu!scw From: scw@cepu.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Sensitivity to Native Americans Message-ID: <204@cepu.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 07:42:32 EST Article-I.D.: cepu.204 Posted: Tue Mar 13 07:42:32 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Mar-84 19:10:51 EST References: <602@shark.UUCP> Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center, LA CA Lines: 84 Thanks Hutch, you just made my day: >Like most hackers, I don't get enough sun to have a redneck. >| >| Why don't you take your little rosy RED glasses off and take a REAL >| >| look at the world!!!!! -- Stephen C. Woods >| >| >To one Steve Woods: >| >| Actually there are several of us. >Aha, but I was only talking to one of you! At least you spell your name >right, not like these ninnies who use a "v" instead of the honored "ph". My folks thank you. >| >Just because someone holds an opinion different from your >| [...] >| >sufficient to make a communist, not by a long shot. >| >| I agree but the tone of the whole article does. >Well, actually, I read the article myself, and it didn't look to me as >if the guy was supporting communal property or the proletariat revolution >or any of those fun Communist catch-phrases. It did look like he fell >into the trap of believing the worst of the USA and the best of the USSR >but that just indicates an inability to filter bullshit. Actually you're correct in this, but if you'll reread my statment I think that you'll find that it's a flame against 'red' filters . >| >You have far more than mere communists to be paranoid about. >| [...] >| >country where they can affect the decisions of their elected >| >officers. >| >| Yes but most of those don't have colorful colors to discribe them. >| I'm really sorry to hear about your case of terminal cynicism. >You mean you've never heard of brown-shirts, or anarchists in khaki, >or any of the other colorful labels the media has attached to various >groups? Then how did you become so indoctrinated into the USA Uber Alles >camp %-> ?? Media?, media? We don't need no stinkin'... . Putting a label/colour on a group doesn't really mean much unless that group accepts it. How? By putting *MY* ass on the line, that's how. >Besides, you elided too much of the paragraph for me to tell why I am >being labelled as terminally cynical. I didn't SAY it was a bad thing >that there is such a wide base of political opinion in this country. Sorry 'bout that. But I though that you'd read the original article. Anyway the extra phrase was a flame against ~~"people who *THINK* that they live in a ...."~~ (empahsis added). >| But it does seem that I've touched a sensitive spot. >Sensitive? As in, INFLAMED? As in, RED??? Will nothing deter >this maddened right-winger from his continual painting of the world >with his monochromatic palette? RIGHT on!! >Distributed anarchic netstructures yield the model for future >democratic interactions. <- dialectic. Not a bad idea, but wait until I have my M1 loaded before you implement it, I need some target practice (Lebanon is a perfect example of a 'pure' anarchy. Did you know that there are 170+ different factions involved in their Civil War?). -- Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology) uucp: { {ihnp4, uiucdcs}!bradley, hao, trwrb, sdcsvax!bmcg}!cepu!scw ARPA: cepu!scw@ucla-locus location: N 34 06'37" W 118 25'43"