From: millerj@helios.ecn.purdue.edu (Snide Pucker)
Subject: Re: Buchanan's speech
Organization: Purdue University School of Nuclear Engineering//Argonne N.L.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:43:26 GMT

In article <23AUG199201141772@jetson.uh.edu> wmporter@jetson.uh.edu (William M. Porter) writes:
#>In an earlier posting, I claimed, "We are in the midst of a crippling attack of
#>NICENESS in this country." Mike Van Pelt (mvp@netcom.com) replied: 
#>
#>>Would that we were ... this so-called "niceness" only goes one way.
#>>It's mandatory "niceness" for Politically Correct groups and people,
#>>but anything goes for the non-PC.
#>
#>[...]  I would concede that this niceness is
#>a virtue born of a guilty conscience and seems to affect white folks rather
#>more than anyone else. [...]
#>Needless to say, this sort of niceness does not keep white candidates from
#>attacking other white candidates savagely, personally, and unfairly. And
#>members of oppressed minorities do not feel obligated to be nice or even civil.

  I agree wholeheartedly with both of you (and many others, I am sure).  As
  someone "blessed" with being a male Caucasian, I am constantly inundated
  by this PC movement that I am at fault for the world's ills and unfairness.
  By virtue of my sex, I am guilty of subverting women's rights and for that,
  I should be sorry.  By virtue of being Caucasian, I am guilty of wanton
  racial discrimination and subjugation and for that, I should also be 
  repentant.  Because I believe in a Christian God, I am also participating
  in a movement to deny alternative religious beliefs.  Because I am financially
  middle classed, I am spitting on the disadvantaged everywhere.  I am guilty,
  guilty, guilty of all of this by virtue of my mere existence, and I should
  be punished!

  My punishment, shared by all other "majority" members, is to be verbally
  abused and blamed for the status quo as well as the entire history of
  discrimination that we have somehow managed to encourage by having the 
  gall to belong to parents of a "majority" group.

  This movement of "niceness" seems to be one of many attempts to right past 
  wrongs.  An attempt, in my opinion, that is seriously flawed specifically 
  because the underlying imposition is that the majority (actually, "ruling"
  may be a better term) groups are responsible for all of the unfairness of 
  the world and are singlehandedly responsible for correcting it.  

  Therefore, white journalists are unable to adequately analyze racial minority
  politicians even if the politician is a raving idiot.  Male journalists are
  not "being nice" if they badger females for information just as they would
  anyone else.  I am not allowed to opine that discrimination in any form
  is wrong since the discriminatory process, and nothing else, has put me
  where I am today.  If someone robs me and beats me senseless, I am obligated
  to feel sorry for that individual who has obviously been victimized by
  society and therefore, I deserved it.  

  This is what this "niceness" movement seems to have become.


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   Jerry W. Miller                   #   "Opinions?  Of course they
   millerj@gn.ecn.purdue.edu         #    are mine, do YOU want them?"
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