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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Paul,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I think that's pretty easy for a white male to
say. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Kris</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=godshatter@yahoo.com href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">Paul
Rumelhart</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=thansen@moscow.com
href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</A> ; <A title=kmmos1@frontier.com
href="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com">Kenneth Marcy</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 03, 2011 9:23
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Rick Perry's
Newest Problem</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>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"</SPAN><SPAN class=tab>, or we grow a thicker skin and not get so
worked up about these kinds of things. <BR></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=tab>Paul<BR></SPAN></DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Tom Hansen
<thansen@moscow.com><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Kenneth Marcy
<kmmos1@frontier.com><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> "vision2020@moscow.com"
<vision2020@moscow.com><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Monday, October 3, 2011 9:08
AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Vision2020]
Rick Perry's Newest Problem<BR></FONT><BR>Mr. Rumelhart -<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Tom
"not holding his breath" Hansen<BR>Moscow, Idaho<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>On Oct
3, 2011, at 8:49, Kenneth Marcy <<A href="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com"
ymailto="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com">kmmos1@frontier.com</A>>
wrote:<BR><BR>> On Monday, October 03, 2011 07:26:10 AM Paul Rumelhart
wrote:<BR>>> It makes you wonder if someday descendants of the people
murdered by an<BR>>> ancient East Germanic tribe when they sacked Rome
and Carthage might<BR>>> someday look in horror upon a small college
town in Idaho that had the<BR>>> gall to name their sports team after
their killers.<BR>> <BR>> The biggest problem with the Vandals sacking
Rome is that they didn't do it <BR>> often enough. It's too bad they didn't
get to Nicaea and Constantinople in the <BR>> century and a quarter prior
to the Roman sack, as that may have prevented a <BR>> lot of grief all
around.<BR>> <BR>>> Same thing with people that have been mauled by
cougars or bears.<BR>> <BR>> The descendants have less about which to
complain in face of the realities of <BR>> their ancient enemies being
hunted and heated to extinction.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Ken<BR>>
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