[Vision2020] Rick Perry's Newest Problem

[Carl Westberg]

And unfortunately, there are very few victims of Vandal attacks....although the citizens of Virginia got something of a scare on Saturday.....

> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 12:12:53 -0700
> From: jborden at datawedge.com
> To: godshatter at yahoo.com; ophite at gmail.com
> CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Rick Perry's Newest Problem
> 
> 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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