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From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Racist jokes
Summary: Missed the point.
Message-ID: <8888@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 29 Nov 88 19:48:18 GMT
References: <448@mccc.UUCP>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum)
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers
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In article <448@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>In article <8842@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) writes:
>=And Pete Holsberg reminds us that greedy, selfish, uncaring, conservative
>=bastards aren't a persecuted minority, so of course it is okay to
>=negatively stereotype them.  Did I get this part correct?
>
>No.  Those are *your* adjectives, not mine.

No, these are the adjectives used by the political left in this country.
I did not choose them from some random sample of words merely to select
text to include.  That is my impression of the stereotype used to describe
conservatives in this country.  And the claim that the conservative right
in this country in some sense has a strangle hold on the political and
economic process flies in the face of reality.  The have-nots greatly
outnumber the haves.  And with one-man, one-vote, it is very simple to
select new social programs and demand new concessions.  However, let the
Christian-White-Male ``majority'' [sic] protest increased burdens and
demands, then it is this ``Non-persecuted Majority'' which suddenly is
accused of being greedy, selfish and uncaring.  One need only imply that
Israel is currently guilty of committing genocide against Palestinians
to see the extent to which Mr. Holsberg's favorite ``Persecuted Minority''
believes it is somehow privileged above all others.
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