--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > [Barry wrote:] > > > When this reverse discrimination is done just to win > > > a silly argument and prove one's out-of-control ego > > > "right," it's almost more offensive than when it's > > > done out of true hatred. > > > > This exchange is starting to take a hard turn because > > nobody is either an expert on the topic or they did > > not live back then in the deep south. One thing is > > true, and that is that history is re-visionist. What > > we say happened "back then" is not necessarily so. > > Peter, with respect, Barry has sucked you into > a made-up version of this exchange. Barry has > *given* it the "hard turn" you mention all on his > lonesome. > > Nobody here has taken the stance Barry is arguing > against. It's a big fat straw man of Barry's own > creation. Go back and read the posts. The only > two people in this discussion to say anything about > "what happened back then" are in agreement *with > Barry* that discrimination against blacks wasn't > absolute. > > Bear in mind where this started: Shemp's claim that > Al Gore Sr. was a segregationist. > > Because this notion is entirely contrary to the > known facts of Gore's record, Shemp is left to > support his claim with only the vanishingly unlikely > possibility that the Gores (and their nanny, who was > black) lied about having to eat at whites-only > restaurants on their trips from Nashville to D.C. > > Tell me *that* attempt to play the race card in > order to smear Al Gore Jr. isn't offensive.
How is Al Gore smeared by all this? Firstly, I don't believe it is morally right to visit the sins of the father unto the son and, secondly, I am a great admirer of Al Gore, largely due to his historically significant defense of and promotion of the passage of NAFTA, particularly in that famous Larry King debate with Ross Perot. So why would I want to smear him? If anything, I am interested in smearing the kind of stereotyping that you, Judy, engage in on an almost daily basis by promoting your "liberals/Democrats always perfect, conservatives/Republicans always evil" agenda by pointing out that things are not always as black and white as you try to make them out to be. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
