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Article #153Re: Vote Against Political Correctness
From: Jacques Chester
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:52
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:52
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"Primal" <limmerswildebeest@iinet.aardvark.net.moose.au> wrote in message news:jbddutgid5r183ni9a9h9rl2du7tm6rgh7@4ax.com... > "emma grant" <graek001@students.unisa.edu.au> decided that a cure for > cancer could wait until this had been said: > > >"Jason Stokes" <jstok@bluedog.apana.org.au> wrote in message > >news:slrn9udbmi.7no.jstok@valis.local... > >> I'd be surprised if the AUS was more than a single fringe netposting loon > >> myself. > > > >I'm thinking the same thing - surely not too many people can have the > >opinions that the site contains? > > Oh you'd hope so, wouldn't you? Mind you, having seen the number of > dropkicks who think wannabe Communist groups like Resistance are a > worthwhile cause, it makes sense that the stupidity of the world is > balanced out by an equal number on the other side of the ledger! No, actually. Whereas watered-down versions of socialism-statism are very palatable, crankpot anti-catholicism is hard to water down at all. One lunatic is as mad as the next in these things, but whereas communism can become "Compassion", not much can be diluted from "the Pope is the Antichrist". In my experience, crankpots are equally distributed. The difference is in the supporting intelligentsia, who as a rule think fashionably. "The left", such as it can be defined, has far more of these persons than "the right". Compassion and revolution are sexy. Cold rationality, and defending institutions, are not. JC.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 105580,9c398df610e0c27a X-Google-Attributes: gid105580,public X-Google-Thread: fb361,9c398df610e0c27a X-Google-Attributes: gidfb361,public X-Google-Thread: 10e526,9c398df610e0c27a X-Google-Attributes: gid10e526,public X-Google-Thread: 10a774,9c398df610e0c27a X-Google-Attributes: gid10a774,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-25 16:52:50 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!enews.sgi.com!news.xtra.co.nz!news1.optus.net.au!optus!news.usyd.edu.au!not-for-mail From: "Jacques Chester" <jc@dynarchy.see-oh-em> Newsgroups: aus.students,aus.students.overseas,aus.tv,aus.culture.true-blue Subject: Re: Vote Against Political Correctness Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:52:48 +1100 Organization: The University of Sydney, Australia Lines: 39 Message-ID: <9ts3p1$dap$1@spacebar.ucc.usyd.edu.au> References: <3be64703.39189837@news> <3WsF7.301770$bY5.1188855@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <3be69bce$0$21956$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <slrn9udbmi.7no.jstok@valis.local> <vcyF7.4933$w61.246772@ozemail.com.au> <jbddutgid5r183ni9a9h9rl2du7tm6rgh7@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: apc-cars-30.accesslabs.usyd.edu.au X-Trace: spacebar.ucc.usyd.edu.au 1006735969 13657 172.17.36.30 (26 Nov 2001 00:52:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.usyd.edu.au NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Nov 2001 00:52:49 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200