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- From: dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM (Dave Bernard)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Columbus and Indians: Whats the point?
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 20:58:24 GMT
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- Bill Anderson writes:
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- >Jesus, you guys. There is a lot of brutality and oppression in
- >history; would you prefer to have it ignored? I spend a lot
- >of time arguing with friends on the left who've accepted the
- >Western Oppression thing hook line and sinker, and it's very
- >frustrating, and then I log on to usenet and see how smug and
- >self-righteous you guys are, and it makes me want to march
- >around chanting "Western Culture's Gotta Go."
- >You accuse "PC" types of having a political agenda in their
- >interpretation of history, and they do, and it can be very
- >annoying. The thing you guys don't get is that YOU have an
- >agenda as well, and yours has carried a lot more weight that
- >theirs...
- >BIll
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- Nah, Bill, I never even implied, and instead downright admitted that
- the Conquistadores were oppressors, and that the US government stole
- Indian land. If I have an agenda, it's just to see a little even-handedness
- here.
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- Dave
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