[Platt] My humble observations indicate the opposite. In the business world and in college acceptances, blacks step to the head of the line because of the color of their skin.
[Arlo] Indicating?... "that the success of blacks is not due to their competence but the color of their skin"?... most blacks? many blacks? The "stepping to the head of the line" is far outnumbered by incidents like I related, being denied opportunity because of the color of their skin. [Platt] >From an article in "Psychology Today:" "That fear, known as xenophobia, seems almost hardwired in the human psyche." I call that "human nature." [Arlo] Of course, any report that confirms your worldview is immediately unassailable dogma, and any that contradicts it is "leftist lies". This report hardly represents a consensus. Personally I know too many people who are not victims of the fear and hatred of rehashed xenophobia. And like I said, I don't think these people are "exceptional", somehow born without the "genetic" need to "fear people of different colors". Rather, I'd argue that this type of fear is a socialized phenomenon. Babies, after all, respond with no fear to people with differing skin pigmentation. It is only after socializing with a racial-hierarchical and categorizational system to children learn to "fear" people with different colors, a fear that is manipulated by politicians and party morons who seek to place the blame for all the world's ills on the perennial "other". [Platt] Maybe you should ask yourself why I can have perfectly normal conversations with others here without vitriol. [Arlo] I am pretty much the only person who responds at length to your moronic rehashing of talk-radio nonsense. That Ant and Marsha deal with you kindlier than I do is their own business. Maybe they are better people. Maybe they have more tolerance at ignoring your insipid rhetoric. With Ham, of course, you guys stroke each other's masturbatory fascination with the "individual", so I understand how treat each other with gentleman gloves. Whatever the case may be, my days of turning a blind eye and shrugging off your ridiculous distortions and deceptive rhetoric are passed. However, I do think I respond rather kindly when the dialogue proceeds without the usual rhetorical atrocities... like this one. [Platt] One need only look at leftist-leaning blogs to see that many liberals speak in the voice of outrage, agressiveness and moral certainty. If the shoe fits . . . [Arlo] Oh, yes, those damnable, evil "leftists". Why can't they speak in honest, civil, non-aggressive ways like noble, pure "conservatives"? Why, one need only take a look at right-leaning blogs to see that many conservatives are soft, cuddly teddy-bears, who give lollipops to children, and speak only the truest and gentlest of words. No... its those horrible "leftists". Only they speak with outrage. Despicable. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
