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Skriven 2007-04-17 21:26:17 av Richard Fallstrom (17082.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Very OT....
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In article <0001HW.C24A36DE01F286C1F0182648@news.verizon.net>, Amy
Guskin <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote:

> >> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:02:42 -0400, Vorlonagent wrote
> (in article <mNWUh.10964$Kd3.7754@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net>):
> 
> > 
> > "Carl" <cengman7@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
> > news:zb-dnY0S9_GMh7nbnZ2dnUVZ_riknZ2d@comcast.com...
> >> 
> >> After the whole Imus event I was listening to the radio and I heard 
> >> someone
> >> say that we've never had a national dialogue on race in this country. 
> >> It's
> >> a comment I've heard quite often, but for some reason today I started
> >> wondering about it.
> >> 
> >> Exactly what do the people that make that statement want?  It's not as if
> >> race isn't brought up... people are talking about it all the time.  I 
> >> can't
> >> think of many topics in which race isn't brought up.
> >> 
> >> I'm not saying that we shouldn't discuss race. I'm just asking what 
> >> context
> >> the people that bring up a "national dialogue" are talking about.
> >> 
> >> FWIW, this is the only newsgroup that I've ever come across that I have
> >> enough faith in the people here that I would even think of asking this
> >> question.
> > 
> > Imus' situation seems to strongly parallel Natalie Mains' (the Dixie 
> > Chicks).  <<
> 
> What??!
> 
> "I'm ashamed that the President is from Texas" is NOT the same as an 
> insulting comment applied to an entire group based on a perception of several

> of their members' appearance (I'm not here to debate whether or not it was 
> racist -- at the heart of it, it was an insulting comment based on 
> appearance).
> 
> What Mains said was a statement of her own feelings, which only commented 
> obliquely on Bush at all.  She didn't say "I'm ashamed of the President for 
> being a bushy-headed idiot."
> 
> I've already said elsewhere what I think of the fuss being made over Imus's 
> comment, so I won't go into it again.  But it is pointedly incorrect to say 
> that what Natalie Mains said is _anything_ like what Imus said.  I realize 
> that what you actually said is that the "situation seems to strongly 
> parallel" hers, but from the rest of your post it's clear that you meant that

> the types of statements made were similar as well, and I really must nip that

> wholly incorrect concept in the bud.
> 
> Amy
> 
> 
Good plan Amy.

Rick (sometimes is a GentleRF and sometimes is not)
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