[Vision2020] Rick Perry's Newest Problem

[Jay Borden]

BTW- "victims of cougar attacks" are commonly referred to as Huskies...
and "victims of bear attacks" are commonly referred to as "Packers".



Jay


-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Paul Rumelhart
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 12:03 PM
To: Andreas Schou
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Rick Perry's Newest Problem


I was using "we" in a society-inclusive way.  We (as a society) should 
either whitewash everything or we (as a society) should grow thicker 
skin.  We (as a society) appear to have chosen the first option, which I

personally think is foolish.

Paul

On 10/03/2011 10:02 AM, Andreas Schou wrote:
> 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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