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- From: mitcheec@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (Elliott Mitchell)
- Subject: Re: Don't forget the cheese Re: the daily whine
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:38:00 GMT
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- In article <7075@news.duke.edu>, eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK) writes...
- >mitcheec@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (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
- >$wonder if his elevator goes all the way to the top floor.
- > [stuff deleted]
- >$This is exactly what one would expect from a white male, someone who has to
- > ***************************************
- >$have described to him what it's like to be discriminated against *as a
- >$group,* else he'd never have a clue.
-
- >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,[...]
-
- Let me be very clear on what I meant. I meant that unless he had it
- explained to him, and/or if he undertook, of his own volition, to
- understand discrimination, he would not know what it means because he is
- part of that group that is at the top of the heap. Certainly he can begin
- to understand what it's all about and even empathize a bit, but not without
- effort and certainly not from personal experience.
-
- >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.
-
- Poor baby! No doubt he finds that certain kinds of housing are denied him
- because he's CONSERVATIVE... no doubt he's been told he doesn't qualify for
- several jobs because he's CONSERVATIVE... without question he's regularly
- stopped and questioned by police because he's CONSERVATIVE. How could I
- have been so insensitive to his plight, mea culpa.
-
- > 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?
-
- You don't have to, thEwIndBag will do it for you, sooner or later.
-
- >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.
- Obstacles, my foot. He dropped out of school and got a job at the local
- radio station simply because his family had connections in Cape Giradeau.
- From then on his career had the typical ups and downs that every radio
- career has until he chose to align himself with the radical right
- so-called-self-styled Christian Coalition and the Republican party, then
- just happened to be in the right place at the right time with a very good
- staff to make him sound smarter than he really is. Huge obstacles. My
- kind of obstacles. We should *all* have such obstacles.
-
- >... 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?
-
- How kind of you to mention Governor Clinton's grandfather. The other
- people you mentioned were only powerful because of their followers, alone
- they were powerless, well maybe Jesus is the exception but then He is God.
-
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