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- From: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu (JIM GRAHAM)
- Subject: Re: Flush Limburger
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- In article <LARRY.92Dec21112413@peak.psl.nmsu.edu>, larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way) writes...
- >>>>>> On Fri, 18 Dec 1992 05:18:08 GMT, graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu (JIM GRAHAM) said:
- > [...]
- >>>Can you provide at least one reference to substantiate, without
- >>>question, that Rush is a "bigot"?
- >>>
- >>>I'd really like to know.
- >
- >>
- >>Definition (roughly) BIGOT: Someone who discriminates against another because
- >> of a group that the other person belongs to.
- >> Thus, all anti-homosexual type people are bigots.
- >> So are all anti-feminists. So are all
- >> anti-aardvarks (a.s.s. joke =)
- >
- >JIM> Ok. Let me rephrase....
- >JIM> In what way, specifically, has Rush shown himself to be a "bigot" by the
- >JIM> above definition?
- >
- >bigot: (from the Spanish, hombre de bigote, lit. "man with a moustache"),
- >n. 1. a person who holds blindly and intolerantly to a particular creed,
- >opinion, etc. 2. a narrow-minded, intolerant person. -SYN. see _zealot_.
- >
- >I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide whether either
- >definition from _Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language_
- >describes Rush or not.
-
- Fine. So far, I've seen two definitions of "bigot".
-
- But, no one has YET shown a single definitive example that shows Rush
- to be a bigot.
-
- I suspect there aren't any, or I would have been flooded with them by
- now, considering how quickly the left tends to label those opposed
- to their ideologies, without first getting the facts.
-
- I'm waiting....
-
- Jim Graham
-
- -> ->Disclaimer: I do not speak for my company. <- <-
- Neither do they speak for me.
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