From: lippard@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (James J. Lippard)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.censorship,alt.discrimination,alt.activism,sci.research
Subject: Re: THE HOAXER PROJECT REPORT (Racist and Anti-Semitic Hoaxes and more!)
Date: 13 Apr 92 15:29:00 GMT
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The following should not be construed as a defense of any views
expressed by Ralph Winston.  It is, however, a criticism of
a respondent of Ralph Winston.

In article <1992Apr13.063935.6910@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, mokon@csws2.ic.sunysb.edu (Matthew Okon) writes...
> 
>Ralphi, you are truly a loser.  How long did it take you to write this hunk
>of shit.  

He didn't write this.

>In article <gate.28B4iB1w164w@b-cpu.UUCP> ralphw@b-cpu.UUCP (Ralph Winston)
> writes:
>>
>>                              Laird Wilcox
>>December 1990
>>
>>                       
>>                       THE HOAXER PROJECT REPORT
>>
>>       RACIST AND ANTI-SEMITIC GRAFFITI, HARASSMENT AND VIOLENCE:
>>              AN ESSAY ON HOAXES AND FABRICATED INCIDENTS
>>
>>                  Copyright 1990, 1991 by Laird Wilcox
>>
>>
>>
>>               THE "RISING TIDE" OF RACISM, ANTI-SEMITISM
> 
> 
>Who the f*ck is Laird Wilcox.  Perhaps another one of your aliases

Laird Wilcox is not an alias of Ralph Winston (though, for all I
know, the reverse could be true--but I doubt it).  He is a researcher
who *is* the founder of the Wilcox Collection on Contemporary Political
Movements in the Spencer Library of the University of Kansas.  He has
compiled several guidebooks to extremist groups:  _Guide to the American
Right_, _Guide to the American Left_, and _Guide to the American Occult_.
He has authored a very good article titled "What is Political Extremism?"
which appeared in _Free Inquiry_ magazine, I believe, in which he
characterized the behavioral traits of extremist groups as:

   1. Character assassination
   2. Name calling and labeling
   3. Irresponsible sweeping generalizations
   4. Inadequate proof for assertions
   5. Advocacy of double standards
   6. Tendency to view their opponents and critics as essentially evil
   7. Manichean worldview
   8. Advocacy of some degee of censorship or repression of their
      opponents and/or critics
   9. Tend to identify themselves in terms of who their enemies are:
      whom they hate and who hates them
   10. Tendency toward argument by intimidation
   11. Use of slogans, buzzwords, and thought-stopping cliches
   12. Assumption of moral or other superiority over others
   13. Doomsday thinking
   14. Belief that it's okay to do bad things in the service of a "good"
       cause
   15. Emphasis on emotional responses and, correspondingly, less
       importance attached to reasoning and logical analysis
   16. Hypersensitivity and vigilance
   17. Use of supernatural rationale for beliefs and actions
   18. Problems tolerating ambiguity and uncertainty
   19. Inclination toward "groupthink"
   20. Tendency to personalize hostility
   21. Extremists often feel that the system is no good unless they win

The article in question, which goes into each of these points to some
degree of detail, is reprinted in _The Hoaxer Project Report_.

>>     Similar compilations of "racially-motivated" incidents compiled by
>>other interested parties, such as KLANWATCH, are also flawed, and
>>perhaps the most glaring flaw in these statistics is the practice of
>>counting unsolved incidents.  Doubtless, numerous hoaxes are included
> 
>KLANWATCH? Oh, you mean the KKK's news letter. Very reputable source, NOT!

No.  Klanwatch is an ANTI-KKK group's newsletter.

>>Laird Wilcox, compiler and editor of these publications, is founder of
>>the WILCOX COLLECTION ON CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL MOVEMENTS, housed in
>>Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas.  The
>>collection, established in 1965 and maintained by the University,
>>occupies over 1,400 feet of shelving and contains over 5,500 books and
>>pamphlets, 4,000 serials, 800 audio tapes, and files on more than 8,000
>>organizations.  From 1986 until 1989 the collection will be undergoing
>>a $345,000 cataloging project.  The WILCOX COLLECTION has been
>>described as "...one of the largest collections of its kind in the
>>world" and is used regularly by researchers and scholars.  For further
>>information write to the WILCOX COLLECTION, Kenneth Spencer Research
>>Library, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66061.
> 
>Oh, come on now. Do you expect anyone to believe this.

Why don't you contact the University of Kansas Spencer Library and
verify it for yourself?

>One might as well conclude from all of this, if he is as ignorant as Maynerd
>the Main Moron, that racism doesn't exist.  There are too many jews in Dixie
>so how would you know anyway.

There is certainly no such argument in _The Hoaxer Project Report_.

>Your organization says:
>        THE HOLOCAUST IS A MYTH
>	JEWS CONTROL THE MEDIA
>	JEWS CONTROL THE WORLD'S BANKING SYSTEM
>	JEWS REPORT FALSE ANTI-SEMITIC ACTS
> 
>Now, Now.   Isn't all the above enough to prove that you and all of your 
                                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^
>associates are ANTI-SEMITIC.
 ^^^^^^^^^^

Of course not.  It's certainly not sufficient to show that *everybody
Winston cites or appeals to in the course of his arguments* is an
anti-Semite.  Yet, if you are including Laird Wilcox in the above, that's
just what you are arguing.
   The fact of the matter is that there *have* been racial and
anti-Semitic incidents which were hoaxes perpetrated by members of
the groups in question, for a variety of reasons.  Wilcox provides
ample documentation for a few dozen such hoaxes.  He may be incorrect
in the conclusions he draws from this about how widespread such hoaxes
actually are, but that doesn't make him an anti-Semite or a racist.

>The truth of the matter is that is Jews actually controlled the world, you 
>and everyone like wouldn't exist.  I mean if Jews have conspired as much as
>you believe, wouldn't someone like you be a hair on the ass of a giant?
> 
>Hey Ralphi, WE'RE COMING FOR YOU!!!!
> 
> 
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Jim Lippard              Lippard@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
Dept. of Philosophy      Lippard@ARIZVMS.BITNET
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
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