From: michael@paul.bu.edu (Michael Chaplin)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,alt.censorship
Subject: Re: What is an intellectual?
Date: 30 Aug 92 06:11:10 GMT
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In-reply-to: egnilges@phoenix.Princeton.EDU's message of 29 Aug 92 17:52:04 GMT

In article <1992Aug29.175204.25326@Princeton.EDU> egnilges@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Ed Nilges) writes:
  =In article <1992Aug29.075733.23255@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil> perez@mgr.hjf.org (Charles Perez) writes:
  =>See what I mean, Ed? You have *got* to do the hard work it takes
  =>to stay on top of the facts and to know when to *hold* your tongue.
  =>Instead, you wag it entirely too much as you try to imitate an
  =>intellectual, and you end up flat on your face. You have *got* to
  =>stop being an intellectual lazeabout.

  =No, Charles, I don't see.  I don't pretend to be an intellectual;
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  =instead I'm an American citizen who last time I checked had both the
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It's very interesting: the last time I read about "intellectuals"
holding a status different from the citizens of their country, it
concerned the Cultural Revolution of China. Before that, it was
about Hitler's consolidation of power in Germany.

   
   =Charley and the Tedster: Jean Paul, you scumsucking idiot, Stan
   =Musial played baseball!  You is no intellectual, dat's for sure!
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Ed, Ed, Ed, I'm afraid that this, coupled with your prior statements
can only be interpreted as showing that your not-yet-realized hatred
of persons of African heritage is expressing itself. Your projection
of this hatred onto "intellectuals" (an obvious substitute bogeyman,
given your obvious feelings towards your own latent homosexuality-
something, I might add, you really shouldn't be ashamed of) is only
a further sublimation of the guilt you no doubt secretly experience
for the metaphorical mass-murder which you commited by failing to
log in and read the news. (I shall leave the interpretation of the
act of failing to log in as an exercise for the student.) Your
trivialization of African-American speech patterns only belies
your self-hatred. This was no doubt caused by viewing some sort
of racist-laden message in your youth- perhaps you saw Amos 'n' Andy
once? In any case, it has scarred you, shamed you, and angered you.
You need help, Ed. Please seek it, before your self-hatred consumes
you.

Yours most sincerely,
Chaplin.
(I should hasten to add, though, that I will not press charges for
your failure to respond to oh-so-many honest questions- though you
may yet feel guilty for "killing" them.)



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