[Vision2020] Rick Perry's Newest Problem

Mon Oct 3 21:50:25 PDT 2011

Paul,

Just so I'm clear, are you saying that African-Americans, or anyone else, should not be offended or insulted by someone naming their place "Niggerhead?"

Is that it?

Sunil

Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 21:38:31 -0700
From: godshatter at yahoo.com
To: kfreitag at roadrunner.com
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Rick Perry's Newest Problem

    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 
        To: Tom Hansen ; Kenneth Marcy 
        Cc: 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

                 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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