--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Robert Seeberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jan Coffey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 12:16 PM > Subject: Re: Race to the Bottom > > > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Robert Seeberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > America, Love It Or Leave It. Right? > > > How very white of you! > > > > > > Knee jerk programmed response! > > > > Exceed your programming! Become more than an atomaton spewing the > > political miss-associations of yesturday. > > > > Hey! > I've got an idea! > Lets degenerate directly to the name calling and get it over with! > <G> > > Or even better! > We could abandon feelings of hatefulness and do some serious thinking > about what's coming and what we can do to avoid the bad possibilities > the future can bring.
It's not about name calling, it's not about arguing the person, it's about the point. Just becouse someone has a love it or leave it attitude doesn not mean they are in favor of any particular administration, do not believe there is need for serious imporvement, or believes that america is only for a select few of a particular race, creed, religion, sexual perswation etc. I have every right to defend my statments from knee-jerk programmed responses, and every right to point out when those responses are occuring. I would like to once again take the opertunity to point out that if we continue to hold these miss-associations we are in danger of missing out on optimal solutions to our problems becouse either the means or the end was once associated with concepts we find distastefull. You don't have to agree with my opinions, and you can even think I am an SOB, for having them, that's just fine with me, as long as you are dissagreeing, and holding an ill opiioin of me for what I am actualy saying, and not some miss-association you are making do to a programmed response. Consider that most people aren't racist becouse they have some kind of menatl difficiency. To imagine that is to be narcasistic. I believe (read hypothisis) that most (not all) racists are so becouse they see a threat to their culture. They are affraid that their culture, or part of their culture, may be altered or destroyed. When they observe such a threat from a particular group, they may have a racist reaction becouse they generalize and make an association between physical apearance and that cultural threat. Given that this discription is valid for even one raceist, how is the knee jerk reaction at the top of this post any differnt? _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
