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- From: arodgers@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Angus H Rodgers)
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- Subject: Re: Understanding
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.173348.22146@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 17:33:48 GMT
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- In <1992Dec23.144201.6988@dsg.cs.tcd.ie>
- cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Ciaran McHale) writes:
-
- >1. Does anybody have further examples of non-X folk thinking that X-folk
- >are anti-(non-X), e.g., gays are against heterosexuality, feminism is
- >anti-male, blacks are anti-white? (I am wondering how widespread this
- >idea might be.)
-
- >2. Does anybody have any ideas about why such notions exist? Is it a
- >result of poor communication resulting in fundamental misunderstandings?
- >Or is it that the bigots are spreading misinformation to create fear of
- >change?
-
- [Very short of time, so only a quick answer, which doesn't do
- justice to the question.]
-
- I'm convinced that this sort of attitude can only be understood in
- terms of the phenomenon of psychological [as contrasted with
- political] repression -- in Freud's sense, that is, but making all
- due allowances for Freud's mistakes, obscurities, and pioneering
- dogmatism.
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