Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site umd5.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!umd5!zben From: zben@umd5.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: 3 lies Message-ID: <617@umd5.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 04:45:39 EDT Article-I.D.: umd5.617 Posted: Wed Jun 26 04:45:39 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 23:48:20 EDT References: <1058@ihuxn.UUCP> <5878@ucla-cs.ARPA> <139@SCINEWS.UUCP> <2084@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <514@rtech.UUCP> Reply-To: zben@umd5.UUCP (Ben Cranston) Distribution: net Organization: U of Md, CSC, College Park, Md Lines: 27 Summary: Would be funny if it weren't so sad... In article <514@rtech.UUCP> jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman) writes: > ......... To say that "black is >beautiful" is a lie is to imply that black is ugly. You know, this would be funny if it weren't exactly the same argument that is getting Reynolds in trouble with the Senate. This is "two-valued" thinking, That if statement A is false, then statement NOT-A is true. Which is exactly the truth, except that NOT-A and DIAMETRICALLY-OPPOSED-TO-A are two different kettles of fish entirely. Why can't we go with: Black is NOT beautiful. Black is NOT ugly. Black is black and just as valid as white or yellow or anything else... Or how about: There are GOOD people and there are BAD people. There are so few GOOD people around that I'm not about to do something as stupid as cutting myself off from a whole group of potentially GOOD people for something as silly as the color of their skin... Ah has spoken. -- Ben Cranston ...{seismo!umcp-cs,ihnp4!rlgvax}!cvl!umd5!zben zben@umd2.ARPA