[Vision2020] Rick Perry's Newest Problem

[Paul Rumelhart]

White males are constitutionally unable to understand any aspect of 
racism, sexism or discrimination.  It's true.  They can't dance, either.

I still think it's a bad idea to continue this Political Correctness 
path that we're on.

Paul

On 10/03/2011 08:43 PM, Kris Freitag wrote:
> Paul,
> I think that's pretty easy for a white male to say.
> Kris
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>     *From:* Paul Rumelhart <mailto:godshatter at yahoo.com>
>     *To:* Tom Hansen <mailto:thansen at moscow.com> ; Kenneth Marcy
>     <mailto:kmmos1 at frontier.com>
>     *Cc:* vision2020 at moscow.com <mailto:vision2020 at moscow.com>
>     *Sent:* Monday, October 03, 2011 9:23 AM
>     *Subject:* Re: [Vision2020] Rick Perry's Newest Problem
>
>     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
>
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>     *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
>     <mailto: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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