[Vision2020] Stereotyping

[Ted Moffett]

Douglas, et. al.

Stereotyping people based on religion, politics, style of dress, race, 
nationality, sex, locale of residence, length of hair, ethnicity, sexual 
orientation, etc., appears to be a nearly universal tendency in human 
beings.  I suppose it makes life easier to quickly assume you mostly know 
what makes someone tick, based on a few salient characteristics, than to go 
through the sometimes difficult process of trying to discover how someone 
thinks and feels on every issue.  Of course this generalizing 
"objectification" of the other, this deadening gaze which hardens the 
"other" in ideological stone, destroys the individual's freedom of 
consciousness, their potential to change, to be creative and unique.

Being a "fundamentalist" Christian pastor, you must align yourself with the 
so called "Christian right wing" that backs W. Bush!

We have you neatly wrapped and packaged in our stereotyped ideological box.

Ted

>From: Douglas <dougwils@moscow.com>
>To: vision2020@moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] uranium denial -- GUTLESS DEMOS
>Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:56:28 -0700
>
>Visionaries,
>
>Apologies to Tom for accidentally answering him publicly. My mistake -- 
>again.
>
>For the rest, it seems that you all have this unshakeable notion that I am 
>a Republican, and that I am trying to insinuate some oblique defenses of 
>the current regime. But the difference between Clinton and Bush is like the 
>difference between Nero and Vespasian. I am opposed to the Pax Americana, 
>whether it comes in the Republican light blue or the Democratic powder 
>blue. The last presidential election where Americans had a real choice to 
>go in one of two opposite directions occurred a long time before I was 
>born. I offer observations on the differences between Clinton and Bush as a 
>disinterested observer -- and not a defender of either.
>
>Douglas Wilson
>
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