Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!vector!rpp386!jfh 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 Lines: 27 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. -- John F. Haugh II +----------Quote of the Week:---------- VoiceNet: (214) 250-3311 Data: -6272 | "Okay, so maybe Berkeley is in north- InterNet: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US | ern California." -- Henry Spencer UucpNet :!killer!rpp386!jfh +--------------------------------------