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From: [e-mail] (EMIL CHUCK)
Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Don't forget the cheese Re: the daily whine
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Date: 17 Nov 92 19:18:10 GMT
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[e-mail] (Elliott Mitchell) writes:
$The wonderful thing about listening to thEwIndBag is that you can tune in
$at any time, for any period of time and get *something* that will make you
$wonder if his elevator goes all the way to the top floor.

Hey, he's only on for three hours where I am.

$For example, Tuesday I caught just a snippet of his act wherein he repeated
$his oft-spoken belief that people should not cluster in groups to demand
$that rights (his words, mine would be 'equality of rights') be accorded
$those groups.  thEwIndBag's contention is that people should remain as
$individuals and succeed or fail through individual efforts.
$
$Ahem.
$
$This is exactly what one would expect from a white male, someone who has to
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$have described to him what it's like to be discriminated against *as a
$group,* else he'd never have a clue.  The reason for folks to band together
$by gender, or by color, or by sexual orientation to ask for equality of
$rights is precisely because they are denied that equality simply on the
$basis of those things that bring them together as a group.

You don't get any sympathy from me if you and your associates get
together and practically curse someone for being a white male for
thinking the opposite stance. You get no sympathy from me if you think
HE doesn't "understand" discrimination because he's a white male, or he
doesn't understand the poor because he's rich, or he doesn't understand
the abortion issue because he's not a female. You start alienating
people for not "understanding" your position based on their ethnic
background, sex or sexual orientation, then you are no better in the
demand for rights than your opposition who you claim is denying you
those rights.

White males don't have free rides to success. Rush is definitely
discriminated against; perhaps not because he's white, or because he's
fat (rotund), or because he's male, but because he's a CONSERVATIVE. Now
you don't hear me call for all conservatives to band together and
demand that our rights be given to us by blaming all our problems on
white female liberal homosexuals (e.g.), do you? I'm sure you don't give
a damn about the obstacles he had to overcome in order to produce his
radio program, his TV program, or his book because he's one of those
"white males" whose behavior you can predict and describe so easily.

$One would only expect a white male like thEwIndBag to encourge people not
$to band together to cure what they see as injustice against them.  Simply
$because he knows that, as individuals, they are as powerless as they ever
$were and that only by working together can they ever hope to right some of
$society's injustices toward them.

Individuals are not powerless. They become more powerful when they join
together in a common cause and common understanding, but individuals are
not powerless. One person makes a difference in many people's lives;
don't you remember Clinton's grandfather story? One person can change
the world: don't you remember Mother Theresa or Mohandas Gandhi or
Martin Luther King, Jr., or Jesus Christ? Banding together and marching
up and down the streets of your cities brings awareness of the problem,
but the solution of the problem depends on people, individuals who will
devote their lives to making other people better. Scaring the hell out
of people or insulting them is no way to get your point across to
others. Cries for "no justice, no peace" is not going to make justice
come any more quickly for you or your group.
--
Emil Thomas Chuck    [e-mail]    Biomedical Engineering 1993
    THANK GOD IT'S BASKETBALL SEASON!!!!!
I don't have to have a 4.0 GPA to succeed in life because I'm
good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.