[Vision2020] Rick Perry's Newest Problem

[Andreas Schou]

Notwithstanding my objection to spreading naked etymological lies:

You're not "we," Paul. You are utterly unaffected by the issue.

-- ACS

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:
> My sometimes roundabout way of making a point isn't endearing me to some of
> the readership out there in Viz-land, so I'll just come out and make my
> point.  Which is that almost everything is offensive to someone on some
> level, and those things that are not currently offensive may become
> offensive in the future because language and culture changes.  We have two
> choices as I see it - either we whitewash everything to the point that we
> might as well not have mascots or place names more descriptive than "Idaho
> Creek 1347", or we grow a thicker skin and not get so worked up about these
> kinds of things.
>
> Paul
>
> ________________________________
> From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
> To: Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com>
> Cc: "vision2020 at moscow.com" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 3, 2011 9:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Rick Perry's Newest Problem
>
> Mr. Rumelhart -
>
> If victims of bear/cougar attacks or descendants of fourth- or fifth-century
> Roman ancestry feel disrespected by the University of California (Berkeley)
> mascot . . . or the Washington State University mascot . . . or the
> University of Idaho mascot . . . like us, they are free to exercise their
> first amendment right and loudly (and proudly) express their discomfort with
> those mascots.
>
> Tom "not holding his breath" Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 3, 2011, at 8:49, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:
>
>> On Monday, October 03, 2011 07:26:10 AM Paul Rumelhart wrote:
>>> It makes you wonder if someday descendants of the people murdered by an
>>> ancient East Germanic tribe when they sacked Rome and Carthage might
>>> someday look in horror upon a small college town in Idaho that had the
>>> gall to name their sports team after their killers.
>>
>> The biggest problem with the Vandals sacking Rome is that they didn't do
>> it
>> often enough. It's too bad they didn't get to Nicaea and Constantinople in
>> the
>> century and a quarter prior to the Roman sack, as that may have prevented
>> a
>> lot of grief all around.
>>
>>> Same thing with people that have been mauled by cougars or bears.
>>
>> The descendants have less about which to complain in face of the realities
>> of
>> their ancient enemies being hunted and heated to extinction.
>>
>>
>> Ken
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