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Dear Che'Gu Maru,

Since I posted my rejoinder, I have read several of your postings and
I now realize what you're about.

But your first post appeared with only the subject line.  Somebody
like me, who still doesn't really know you, would have no idea what
you were talking about.  You didn't say 	

	What's In Your Brain, Racist Asshole?
or 
	Racist Asshole, What's In Your Brain?

I was teasing about Hal-PC, but I wasn't being sarcastic.  Seriously,
most members I have met, some on, some off the net, are interesting
people.  And I don't judge people by their appearance, or their email
address.

I was questioning the content of your posting.  You just didn't give
any clue what kind of assholes you were talking about.  It's not true
that "the title says it all", the title doesn't say very much.  I  was
hoping for more information, and you have provided it, in a much
clearer fashion than your initial post.

So, that confusion is cleared up.  But I have one more.  In your post
(below), you seem to be accusing me of both of the following
attitudes, based on one 15 word posting: 

	"All people are really basically good."  [BAD, NAIVE]
and 
	"ONE member of a group I can clearly identify did something
heinous; therefore ALL others who I can categorize in the same way
must be equally heinous." [BAD, RACIST]

So which am I?  I have now posted about 220 more words in this thread,
which given your ability to leap to conclusions, should tell my true
attitudes, name, nationality, and shoe size.

Steve M


On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 13:33:17 -0500, "Che'Gu Maru"
<chgumaru@hal-pc.org> wrote:

>There are some things which are so base, so vile, that it takes vulgarity
>for a properly proportional response to them.  Racist hatemongering is one
>of these.
>
>Of course, if you have lived your life in a sheltered environment in which
>you have never had yourself and your family physically threatened by such
>people, perhaps my so responding is unintelligible to you.  There are, after
>all, some people in the world who never having had to directly confront evil
>themselves, will in their honest innocence declare, "All people are really
>basically good."
>
>But I having had a different history see the world from a somewhat different
>perspective.
>
>One last final word -- you are entitled to form whatever opinion you wish
>about me.  However, regardless of if that opinion is positive or negative,
>you are being grossly unfair to use it to characterize all HAL-PC members.
>In fact, that sort of logic is PRECISELY the logic used by racists and
>hatemongers themselves, e.g., "ONE member of a group I can clearly identify
>did something heinous; therefore ALL others who I can categorize in the same
>way must be equally heinous."  That is not exactly the proud logic to expect
>from one who in this posting (at least) seems eager to look down his nose at
>others.
>
>"Steve M" <spamtrap.com@houston.rr> wrote in message
>news:3b9cd1f0.2269473@localhost...
>> You know, I had a high opinion of most Hal-pc members until this
>> posting ...
>>
>> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:08:02 -0500, "Che'Gu Maru"
>> <chgumaru@hal-pc.org> wrote:
>>
>> >The title says it all.
>> >
>> >
>>
>
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