[Vision2020] responding to Neo-Confederates
rodney johnson
rodneyjohnsoniii@hotmail.com
Thu, 18 Dec 2003 07:58:20 +0000
<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE>Bill London provided a link to the new and improved Quinlan/Ramsey piece. I read through the “second revision” and noticed only some minor changes — mainly that their embarrassing spelling errors have now been corrected, they finally got the names right, and some of the more libelous lines have been altered. I think there are a couple of real stories in this. First, how many academic reviews by professional historians — the ones really worth their salt — need a revised edition published to correct their errors within a month of the original publication? Second, why does the website to which it is posted (Diversity and Human Rights) have a redesigned presentation, with a newly-issued statement (disclaimer), to present the Quinlan/Ramsey piece in a more objective manner? The answer is because it would have been really, really embarrassing for an “Office of Diversity and H!
uman Rights” to be potentially liable for a civil rights violation under 42 USC 1983. </DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>But let’s face it. Any Vision 20/20 archivist can verify that this whole controversy was going on way before any juicy morsels were Googled up to be gobbled up by the “slavery” connect-the-dotters. I am sure that Joann Muneta had been patiently salivating for a long, long time for just the right moment, the just-right mixture of timing, events, temperature, chemistry, and missing ingredients, to launch her cause celebre, her historic display of “tolerant” intolerance. Or is it “intolerant” tolerance? (I’m still having trouble with “diverse” uniformity vs. “uniform” diversity.) In any event, we are progressing as a community. We are broadening our outlook. We started with NIMBY, and have expanded to NIOT. Our backyards were never big enough for us; now we want them out of “our town.” That’s right, it’s <EM>OURS!</EM></DIV>
<P>I think the most “threatening” and “controversial” and “divisive” and “presumptuous” thing that the CC/NSA folks ever did, and I mean, this had to be the icing on the cake!—was to purchase the old Verizon building. How <EM>dare</EM> they?! [gasping] Without <EM>our</EM> permission?! [feeling light-headed] How <EM>could</EM> they?! [nearly fainting…] Oh, my … my… [teacup and saucer with crumpets shatter as they hit floor] If there was ever a local piece of secularly hallowed ground, if there was ever a focal point for all progressive movements in Moscow, it would have to be the sacred Friendship Square. For Moscow’s liberal establishment to be unable to visit <EM>THEIR</EM> Farmer’s Market on a Saturday morning without having to pass by even the shadow of <EM>THEM</EM> must be pure torture. Talk about casting your cruelty-free oyster products before swine! </P>
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<P>Yes, there is a left-wing clique in Moscow that thinks they own the place. And if there is ever the slightest hint that their Maypole of Hegemony might be threatened, well then, well, I mean you may think you’ve heard a squeaky wheel or two in your time, son, but you ain’t ever heard nothin’ prepare you fore what you ‘bout to hear now! </P>
<P>And while he's more of a broken record than a squeaky wheel, Tom Hansen is definitely not the only one with a Screw “Loose on the Palouse!” </P>
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