[Vision2020] answering g. crabtree

[Bill London]

In one of my Daily News Town Crier columns, I thanked Doug for stepping back from his most outrageous pro-slavery statements.  And while I have not read his re-written replacement for the slavery booklet ( called Black and Tan, I believe), I assume his revised views are included there.

My point was that Wilson, who clearly changed his position on this issue, had the audacity to state that:
"It's ridiculous to have to say the obvious -- that slavery has always been an evil needing to be abolished. But that has been our position from the start."

His revised position was not his position from the start.  He never would have revised it without the pressure from the community.  And his claim that he always held those revised views is just not true.
BL
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: g. crabtree 
  To: Bill London ; Austin Storm ; Joe Campbell 
  Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com ; keely emerinemix 
  Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 7:31 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] answering g. crabtree


  Bill, lets stretch the boarders of our imagination, sans CUP, and assume for a moment that you are absolutely correct (doubtful) and that you're not taking isolated passages out of context. Why do you not embrace the revised position? Why do you insist on castigating someone for a previously held notion. I would certainly hate to be judged solely on remarks I've made in the past and I suspect that you and the rest  of the CC critics wouldn't be all that wild about it either. Or is it just a lot more fun to selectively pick and choose whatever supports your ongoing bias.

  gc
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Bill London 
    To: Austin Storm ; Joe Campbell 
    Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com ; keely emerinemix 
    Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 2:50 PM
    Subject: Re: [Vision2020] answering g. crabtree


    Doug Wilson changed his story.  He renounced his earlier clear support of the slavery system in the pre-war American South expressed in his booklet "Southern Slavery, As it Was."
    In his booklet, he wrote (for example):
        "owning slaves is not an abomination" page 21
        "the bible is clear that christians may own slaves" page 17
        "slave life was to them a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes, and good medical care" page 25. 
    That is why Wilson's statement (made after he adjusted his views) that you quoted below ("It's ridiculous to have to say the obvious -- that slavery has always been an evil needing to be abolished. But that has been our position from the start.") is false. 
    He was dragged, kicking and screaming, to that new position.  At the start of this all, Wilson held the neo-confederate pro-slavery view of the world.
    BL 



    ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Austin Storm 
      To: Joe Campbell 
      Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com ; keely emerinemix 
      Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 2:16 PM
      Subject: Re: [Vision2020] answering g. crabtree


      On 6/26/06, Joe Campbell <joekc at adelphia.net> wrote (among other things): 


        When Doug Wilson says that slavery is a good thing that is free speech; when I respond to this absurd suggestion I am being "intolerant and hypocritical." And when you point out my hypocrisy we're back to free speech again! 

        --
        Joe Campbell



      "It's ridiculous to have to say the obvious -- that slavery has always been an evil needing to be abolished. But that has been our position from the start."  -Doug Wilson 

      -Austin 


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