🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <31eaff88.5052630@newshost.icis.on.ca>, vjasin@icis.on.ca says...
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>On Tue, 09 Jul 1996 02:00:02 -0500, allisat@lglobal.com (Bob Allisat)
>wrote:
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>>  and not just me. Or else you all get what you deserve:
>>
>>                           SHIT
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>        And 711's should be allowed to be topless, the libraries
>should carry SWANK in their periodicals section. Go for it Allisat,
>but your idea of SHIT is my idea of informed, preferred, CHOICE. Or
>have we suddenly become a totalitarian state here. (I guess there are
>some who would even argue that). To me that kind of attitude is SHIT.
>The net has become the haven, of subversives, sicko's, anti-censorship
>fanatics all of whom had no where to congregate before and no way of
>pumping their twisted choice of morality onto all of society as a
>required common denominator in the name of civil liberties.
>Rationalization gone mad.


	One can possibly think (and rationalize) of the internet as a 
"superstore" or a collection of specialized stores. Walk down the street of 
any large city, and you will find many stores that suit your tastes and 
many that will not. Do you ban some stores and allow others? You may try, but 
that's what a free society is all about (or is supposed to be about). Freedom 
of choice. 
	Certain laws apply, but they must be applied specifically, not as a 
blanket order or command. 
	"He LOOKS like a drug dealer; he must be "dirty"; he is subject to 
our "law"; we will search him; he's resisting.... damn sure he's dirty 
now.... he's reaching inside his pocket...must be a gun...get him!!!... Oops, 
turns out the poor sucker was just drunk and was reaching for a stick of 
gum... Oh well, just another victim....
	All long haired people are dopers (especially if they wear an 
earring), so just may as well arrest them before they do any more harm.
	Blacks make up the majority of federal prisoners, so they must be 
inherently criminal, so arrest them for the sake of prevention.
	Indians (native people) are drunks and generally indigent, so arrest 
them for vagrancy.
	Whites are inherently greedy sons (daughters: don't want to be 
accused of sexism!!) of bitches/bastards, so arrest them for exploiting all 
other races.
	Oriental/Asians are shifty (you can see it in their eyes), so arrest 
them on general principle; sooner or later they will form gangs and prey upon 
their own communities. 
	Arabs (Semites) are ignorant camel herders who happened to live next 
to or on vast oil reserves. Interestingly enough, Jews are part of that, but 
they have taken the business of survival to new highs in the face of 
incredible odds. Arrest the Arabs for having the temerity to take charge of 
their own territories. Arrest the Jews for having the temerity to defend 
themselves. 
	
	Does ANY of that sound familiar? Did I leave out any major race that 
I could come up with a typical stereotype for? I'm sure that I could come up 
with more juicy tidbits if anyone will give me purely ethnic stereotypes. 
These are even more fun, because the same stereotypes are used against each 
others' ethnic group usually.
	Oh, what fun we're having now. (I feel a tangible (!!!) backlash).

	OK, I have gone off on a slight(?) tangent, but it still comes down 
to the same thing: You can't judge, nor should you, the actions, words, or 
behaviour of some as typical of a group. That group should be judged on 
individual merits of the members of the group. If a member of a group should 
be found to be deficient, abnormal, deranged, or just plain ignorant,a fool, 
or someone who should be censured, so be it. Just don't blame the group as a 
whole. That would be, and is, a mistake... unless you can PROVE that the 
group as a whole is BAD/EVIL. 

	Anyway, that's what I think. I would expect some flames, but I am 
ready, I hope...???? Is there an emoticon for "fists up"?