[Vision2020] Posturing Ennui: Deja Vu All Over Again

[Paul Rumelhart]

I can certainly understand that.

All I'm saying is that not caring whether or not someone believes 
something I disagree with, even if they express that belief from the 
pulpit, does not make me "basically disinterested in universal human 
rights" as has been alleged.  I would say it's quite the opposite.  I've 
long been a supporter of freedom of expression on this list.  It's an 
important freedom to me.

I don't care if someone thinks that the slaves in the South had it easy, 
and I don't care if someone thinks the Holocaust never happened.  I also 
don't care of they think the White Man is a crazed predator that 
destroys everything he touches.  People are welcome to their own 
opinions, and are welcome to express them as they like.  This does not 
mean I'm an evil man.

Paul

On 03/28/2012 02:10 PM, keely emerinemix wrote:
> I would add that when said hairdresser or grocer takes on the mantle 
> of "pastor" and then teaches that public, active affirmation of evils 
> such as the death march and Hiroshima are intrinsically and 
> fundamentally linked to my religion, I would not only disavow their 
> statements but object, and object strenuously, to that and any other 
> perversion of the faith I live for.
>
> It only takes a few bad men to convince thousands of people that 
> applauding historic evil is a righteous and faithful thing to do.  
> This woman, though, will fight them 'til the day she dies.
>
> Keely
> www.keely-prevailingwinds.com
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:23:54 -0700
> To: godshatter at yahoo.com
> CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Posturing Ennui: Deja Vu All Over Again
>
> Paul Rumelhart inquires:
>
> "Do people here know or care what their grocer thinks about the Bataan 
> Death March?  Or what their hair stylist thinks about Nagasaki or 
> Hiroshima?"
>
> Not if they limited expressing their beliefs to the confines of the 
> grocery store or hair salon, Mr. Rumelhart.
>
> But, when these "beliefs" are expressed as fact from the pulpit by a 
> self-ordained pastor or within a classroom by an instructor, it 
> matters VERY MUCH.
>
> Or have you forgotten about the tirades over local professors simply 
> because they are liberal?
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "If not us, who?
> If not now, when?"
>
> - Unknown
>
>
>
> On Mar 28, 2012, at 12:06, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:godshatter at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     Do people here know or care what their grocer thinks about the
>     Bataan Death March?  Or what their hair stylist thinks about
>     Nagasaki or Hiroshima?
>
>
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