Re: Rape After Rape After Rape

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1 total messages Started by Todd Horne Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:52

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Author: Todd Horne
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:52

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    Jack;

JD>> Hopefully, in the 20th century, we can ask that we learn from history
JD>> and
JD>> not repeat it.  As Ghandi pointed out, if we all practiced "an eye
JD>> for an
JD>> eye", we would live in world of blind people.

    Nice point.  If the first sentence applied to Gandhi, I would have to disagree with you, in absolute if not in context.  A great deal can be learned from History, most of all being a recognition of those places and people that foster inhumanity and oppression, and from there it is the duty of the present to right whatever wrongs that exist through means which do not duplicate or perpetuate the "oppressor/oppressed" cycle.  This, Gandhi thought, was through a mix of civil disobedience and political/lega







l action to formally protest the grievance, none of which was done in a forceful or "push" manner, much in agreement with the "Eastern mindset".  Stereotypes - can't avoid them.

        Tell me more about Freire.  All I really know is that he worked a great mystic/spiritual background into his work, and that he was a "mover and shaker", involved in a social movement of his own.  Not much, but a start.

                    -Todd Horne.


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