--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- 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?
Guilt by association, obviously. > 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? Because he's a Democrat. It doesn't matter, though, whether you have adopted the reason the smear of Gore's father was launched by the right wing in the first place; the slander of Gore Sr. alone is unspeakably vile. > 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. Except, of course, that this is yet another figment of your very vivid imagination. 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/
