From: ECL4JN2@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (Jack B. Nimble)
Subject: Re: The Hate Gene (was Re: Social Democracy)
Date: 8 Nov 92 17:31:54 PST

In article <1992Nov1.131211.20448@macc.wisc.edu>, on 1 Nov 92 13:12:11 GMT,
anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:

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>In article <1csdpkINNnf5@crcnis1.unl.edu>
>cbe@unlinfo.unl.edu (Colburn Eigen) writes:
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>>ECL4JN2@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (Jack B. Newsbaum) writes:
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>>>Jim Crow laws were institutionalized by state and local
>>>governments.  Businesses which wanted to provide equal
>>>accomodations to blacks and whites were prohibited by law
>>>from doing so.
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>>It is an interesting concept that the state and local
>>governments enacted these Jim Crow laws against the wishes
>>of the populace or the business community.  This idea that
>>the governments operate in a vacuum and are likely to have
>>opposed the will of the people is a fascinating reading of
>>the history of the times.  Perhaps this is the same ability
>>to analyse history such that the claim can be made that The
>>Holocaust did not occur.
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>I suspect that the basic motive for such revisionism in both
>cases would be guilt.  A person would have to be fairly
>close to my age to have had first-hand experience of Jim
>Crow, since _Brown vs Board of Education_ (1954) effectively
>made Jim Crow illegal.
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It never ceases to amaze me how the left-wing liberals are ever so eager
to distort what has actually been asserted. The effect of Jim Crow laws
absolutely did prevent those in the South who wanted to serve blacks and
whites in non-discriminatory fashion. I never claimed that everbody or
even a majority of people in the South wanted to do so. That there were
many who wished to do so is an established fact. Again, I refer you to
_Markets and Minorities_ by Thomas Sowell.

That Brown v. Board of Education should have put an end to imposed
discriminatory practices of the government does not imply that it
actually did so. De jure school segregation continued on well past 1954.
If I'm correct it was in 1959 that Rosa Parks defied Montgomery
Alabama's municipal ordinance by refusing to give up her seat to a white
man.

You've got the guilt thing ass-backwards as well, you dunderhead!

It's the left- wing liberals who go around exonerating the wicked deeds
of evil people by blaming society for not providing the right social
conditions to eliminate poverty. I've seen it happen right here in Los
Angeles, where the activities of the murderers, arsonists, and looters
were justified by liberal congresscritters because of the Rodney King
verdicts.

If I were to apply the type of rationalizations that the advocates of
"affirmative action" use to justify their policies, I should hold you
personally responsible for the Holocaust, because your Christian
ancestors promulgated a religion which preached hatred toward Jews for
almost two thousand years.

>And political life has certainly not become simpler in the
>ensuing four decades.  I've been reading several collections
>of essays lately on the Clarence Thomas affair.  Historical
>revisionism is alive and well, of that we may be sure.  And
>only a person who really doesn't know much history could
>possibly have written as Jack Newsbaum has here.
>
Your attempt to mix in Holocaust revisionism into this discussion is
nothing short of sleazy. However, it is not really unexpected as it
is typical of your argumentative style.

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>Property makes ethics unthinkable.
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To the contrary, the lack of property makes ethics impossible.

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