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- From: pontius@tt.com (Doug Pontius)
- Subject: Re: Anita Hill to Head EEOC
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.181156.21247@debbie>
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- Organization: Telecommunications Techniques Corporation, Germantown MD
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:11:56 GMT
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- (Previous verbiage omitted)
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- In article <1eebl5INNeol@SUNED.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU> jovanovic-nick@cs.yale.edu (Nick Jovanovic) writes:
-
- >
- >I apologize for my remarks.
- >
- >I do not apologize for criticizing someone who says to others, "you want to
- >call it a family." My Webster's New World Dictionary has 7 definitions for
- >*family*, 2 of which have a combined total of 7 sudefinitions. My other,
- >smaller dictionary has 6 definitions for *family*. Amazingly, they both
- >agree that one meaning is *all the people living in the same house*, or
- >*all those who live in one house*. Thus, the word has a very inclusive
- >meaning and I resent someone attempting to Republicanize it.
- >
- >BTW, I doubt that only a _handful_ of people realize that *denigrate*
- >comes from the same Latin root, *niger*, as have *Negro* and *Nigeria*.
- >
- >-Nick
- >
-
- I think we are dancing around the real issue here by playing word games.
-
- I think the issue that we Republican Fascist Extremists are really talking
- about is *traditional* family values. As such, the question is not whether
- we can reach a consensus on the dictionary definition of the word family,
- but rather, what view of family life should be embraced by our society.
-
- I really do not believe there is such a thing as neutrality on this issue.
- One viewpoint holds a very limited view of the purpose of the family and
- what constitutes the ideal family structure, and the other basically holds
- that this is not the case and other views are either superior or at least
- equally valid. Therefore, if one does not fall into the former category,
- one automatically belongs to the latter.
-
- I happen to believe that the purpose of the family is to pass on values and
- preserve the society that my ancestors risked their very lives to establish.
- I also happen to believe that my narrow-minded traditional view of the family
- is best for our children and our society as a whole. I am also a little bit
- too intelligent to expect people whose values are completely different from
- mine to inexplicably agree with the positions I take on specific issues.
-
- Likewise, if you choose to hold views which clash with traditional views,
- please don't get upset because those who hold to traditional views find it
- impossible to agree with you! Of course, we conservatives also have a
- responsibility to defend *our* beliefs in a calm and sensible manner, without
- getting excessively nasty. Too often the substance of a given debate is
- overshadowed by the caustic tone of the debate.
-
- Whether we like it or not, the values that our society espouses will shape
- the future of our nation. We <adjectives omitted> conservatives are fully
- entitled to our view, and yes, you non-conservatives are entitled to yours.
- Ultimately, one viewpoint will win out; one will be proven correct, and
- the other incorrect. In the meantime, I'm afraid the debate will remain
- very much alive.
-
- --Opinions of me, not TTC!--
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- Douglas C. Pontius
- Telecommunications Techniques Corp.
- Germantown, MD
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