Fw: [Vision2020] Toleration

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Linda

Thanks very much for posting this.

Roger
-----Original message-----
From: "Linda Pall" lpall at moscow.com
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 19:51:35 -0800
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Fw: [Vision2020] Toleration

> Dear Visionaries,
> 
> I wasn't able to attend the memorial but let me put a little memorial out
> there in his own words. I came upon this as I did some wierd gyrating with
> my computer. I think this is fitting for Phil, though I did not know him
> very well at all.  And thanks for the opportunity to contribute to the fund.
> 
> All the best to each of you,
> 
> Linda Pall
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Phil Nisbet" <pcnisbet1 at hotmail.com>
> To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 2:14 AM
> Subject: [Vision2020] Toleration
> 
> 
> > Here on the weekend I would love to reflect on some things that I have
> noted
> > recently.
> >
> > At one of the public meetings I attended recently, I was told by a person
> > who shall remain nameless, that I should go back where I came from.  As a
> > Jew that's not an atypical response that we tend to get when we voice our
> > opinion, but this particular comment struck me as funny.  The person who
> > uttered the comment is of recent extraction, to whit, an immigrant of
> > European stock who, though having lived on the Palouse for many years is
> > assumed to be 'from' here.  I, on the other hand, trace my family to the
> > Boise Basin of the middle 1860's and my great great grandfather Rueben is
> > buried down in Nampa, but obviously I am the person who should 'go back
> > where I came from'.
> >
> > And that got me thinking how totally 'cosmopolitan' and so free from petty
> > parochialism this town is. . .
> >
> > Then there was the toe the line letter, republished here by the services
> of
> > certain folks, which stated that 'some people' needed to stop making the
> > majority angry.  How foolish of me to think that as a Republic, the view
> of
> > the minority was to be protected from the raging of the majority opinion?
> >
> > So I got to thinking how tolerant and urbane this little burg really is,
> so
> > accepting of the feelings and thoughts of others. . .
> >
> > And its not the old time old line farming folks, though they can be
> crusty,
> > that are the ones who back bite and hurl so many wondrous comments around,
> > it's the folks tied to the institution of higher learning.  The very
> people
> > who should be more understanding, dare we say more liberal in their
> > attitudes, are the people who seem least able to handle disagreement.
> >
> > And those of you who spend so many hours thinking of the next attack
> phase,
> > do you seriously think that the bulk of the lurkers on this list, the
> silent
> > majority of very long term, life time residents are simply rustics who
> need
> > to be taught a lesson in diversity?  Because from my experience, those
> > ranchers and farmers and loggers in our rural areas are head and shoulders
> > more tolerant, more willing to listen to the other guy and just down right
> > more friendly than I have seen of late here in Moscow.  And just for a
> news
> > flash to some, most of them laugh their butts off reading the squabbling
> > that goes on here in Moscow.  And from what Debbie found when she meet
> with
> > economic development folks down there in Boise, they are not the only ones
> > laughing.
> >
> > Because you see, all I have to do to 'go back where I came from' is head
> > outside the immediate vicinity of Moscow, where the 'majority' of the
> people
> > are nothing like the folks here.  Some of you might learn something about
> > comity; learn to play well with others, from those farmers and ranchers
> and
> > loggers and miners and paper workers and the lot who live in the rest of
> > Idaho, just a few miles outside the environs of this town.  And
> considering
> > how dependent this community is on the good will of the majority of the
> Rest
> > of the state to see that funding happens right here at the University of
> > Idaho, that the people who need to learn not to make the 'majority'
> unhappy
> > are sitting right here in this town?
> >
> >
> > Phil Nisbet
> >
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