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- From: briand@anasazi.com (Brian Douglass)
- Subject: Re: An Apology to Ted
- Organization: Anasazi Inc Phx Az USA
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:43:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec20.130523.6747@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> turnert@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Thom F Turner ) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec18.231126.21279@anasazi.com> briand@anasazi.com (Brian Douglass) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec18.091953.19727@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> turnert@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Thom F Turner ) writes:
- >>>In article <1992Dec16.174347.17899@galileo.physics.arizona.edu> krueger@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (Ted Krueger) writes:
- >>>>In article <1992Dec15.042117.3695@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> tip@lead.aichem.arizona.edu (Tom Perigrin) writes:
- >>>>
- >>>>>Ted is typical of Arizona...
- >>>>
- >>>>>The last state to pass a Martin Luther King day
- >>>>
- >>>>You left out, "The only state to pass a Martin Luther King Day Holiday by
- >>>>popular vote."
- >>>>
- >>>Hmmm...
- >>What the hell does a person's political affiliations have to do with
- >>Physics?! Either the man knew his business or didn't. But to gloat over
- >>the idea that you toppled him (as if he was Somoza or someone) and that his
- >>knowledge as a physcists was irrelevant, clearly shows a you speak for a group
- >>of people that have their priorities mixed up.
- >>
- >>By that kind of thinking you would have preferred to replace Edward Teller
- >>with Freddie Mercury (whom I do believe had a PhD in Astrophysics from
- >>Oxford). To hell with truth, dogma is more important.
- >>
-
- deleted a piece without attributation. Tsk, tsk. Well, I'll just put it
- back.
- >--
- >LLLLLLLL LL LL LLLL LL LL | Thom Turner, Co-Chair
- > LL LL LL LL LL LLL LLL | Nat'l Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Student Caucus
- > LL LLLLLL LL LL LL L LL | 815 15th St. NW Suite 838/Washington,DC 20005
- > LL LLLLLL LL LL LL L LL | 815 15th St. NW Suite 838/Washington,DC 20005
- > LL LL LL LLLL LL LL | E-Mail: turnert@gas.uug.arizona.edu
-
- >>
- >>I think this speaks for itself that PC does exist on American Campuses and
- >>we are seeing a modern equivelant of the Inquisition, or American
- >>equivalent of the Cultural Revolution. Pick your analogy.
- >
- >
- >I'd agree with the statement: "What does a person's political affiliation
- >have to do with physics?" If the Physics Department Head had spent more
- >time on physics and less time on sending memos to administration (on
- >official UA letterhead) comparing gays and lesbians to "gila monsters and
- >communists" there wouldn't have been such an interest in "toppling" him
- >as department head.
-
- That's a personnel issue to be dealt with by a personnel office. But
- original commentary again portends that he was summarily dismissed because
- of his views, not because of any insubordination of authority (ie. a rule
- that says you can't compare gays to gila monsters on UA letterhead for
- which he should be disclipined).
-
- >On PC existing on American Campuses: The radical right-wing of this
- >country believes in a myth, that of the "Politically Correct Movement."
- >Anytime someone raises an issue that the right-winger doesn't agree
- >with, that right-winger writes it off as part of the "PC Movement"
- >thereby trivializing someone's legitimate concern(s). PC doesn't exist...
- >at least not as the Radical Right-Wing likes to believe it exists. The
- >Republican National Convention proved this year that there is a PC
- >movement of the Right: either you hate homos and force women to have
- >children against their wills and are against affirmative action and
- >many other social programs, or you aren't a PC republican.
-
- Lets flip this around. Yes PC lives and breathes on American Campuses.
- Yes PC lives and breathes in Right-Wing politics (I probably know about
- this far better than you). But just because right-wingers trivialize your
- arguments with PC doesn't mean you can do likewise.
-
- Any minority of the citizenry right or left that pushes its moral dogma on
- others against their wishes is just seeking its own version of PC.
-