🚀 go-pugleaf

 Scott E. Post (spost@koptss03.delcoelect.com) wrote:
 :
 : Leaning rightward is just a general reflection of Usenet's
 : demographics. Most of us are educated professionals and most
 : educated professionals lean to the right.  Sure, there are
 : a few very vocal net-kooks who could fairly be labelled as
 : racist or fascist, but just like in society at large they're
 : the exception.  A highly vocal exception, but an exception 
 : nontheless.
 :
 : (edit)....  The over 35 crowd created the welfare state as
 : we know it.  I don't put a lot of stock in their ability to
 : fix it...


          They also created the environmental
          problems, continued to propogate a racially
          divided society, built the consumer and
          industrial society to be even more ominous
          than in Eisenhower's day. In fact the people
          of Usenet represent the powers that be and
          their *very* strong racial/class divisions.

          Before you say "Hold on... that's not true"
          it is the general opinion of many native
          people, the descendants of african slaves,
          and more recent immigrant labourers that
          racism is very much alive and real in the
          US, Canada and the other countries represented
          here on Usenet. And I always trust the words
          of those directly effected far more than
          "educated" opinion.

          Until we all admit racism exists here and now
          in the opinions expressed by most people in
          these various forums all this talk - is just
          talk. Hollow, empty, shallow talk.

          One parting thought... "We" will never reform
          anything when our personal economic and social
          interests are furthered by the contuation of
          an injustice or unequitable situation. "They"
          will have to "reform" "us"... and that will be
          interestingly messy.

          Your turn...


          Bob Allisat