From: mitcheec@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (Elliott Mitchell)
Subject: Re: Don't forget the cheese Re: the daily whine
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:38:00 GMT

In article <7075@news.duke.edu>, eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK) writes...
>mitcheec@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (Elliott Mitchell) writes:
>$The wonderful thing about listening to thEwIndBag is that you can tune in 
>$at any time, for any period of time and get *something* that will make you 
>$wonder if his elevator goes all the way to the top floor.
> [stuff deleted] 
>$This is exactly what one would expect from a white male, someone who has to 
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>$have described to him what it's like to be discriminated against *as a 
>$group,* else he'd never have a clue. 

>You get no sympathy from me if you think
>HE doesn't "understand" discrimination because he's a white male, or he
>doesn't understand the poor because he's rich,[...]

Let me be very clear on what I meant.  I meant that unless he had it 
explained to him, and/or if he undertook, of his own volition, to 
understand discrimination, he would not know what it means because he is 
part of that group that is at the top of the heap.  Certainly he can begin 
to understand what it's all about and even empathize a bit, but not without 
effort and certainly not from personal experience.

>White males don't have free rides to success. Rush is definitely
>discriminated against; perhaps not because he's white, or because he's
>fat (rotund), or because he's male, but because he's a CONSERVATIVE.

Poor baby!  No doubt he finds that certain kinds of housing are denied him 
because he's CONSERVATIVE... no doubt he's been told he doesn't qualify for 
several jobs because he's CONSERVATIVE... without question he's regularly 
stopped and questioned by police because he's CONSERVATIVE.  How could I 
have been so insensitive to his plight, mea culpa.

> Now
>you don't hear me call for all conservatives to band together and
>demand that our rights be given to us by blaming all our problems on
>white female liberal homosexuals (e.g.), do you?

You don't have to, thEwIndBag will do it for you, sooner or later.

>I'm sure you don't give
>a damn about the obstacles he had to overcome in order to produce his
>radio program, his TV program, or his book because he's one of those
>"white males" whose behavior you can predict and describe so easily.
Obstacles, my foot.  He dropped out of school and got a job at the local 
radio station simply because his family had connections in Cape Giradeau.  
From then on his career had the typical ups and downs that every radio 
career has until he chose to align himself with the radical right 
so-called-self-styled Christian Coalition and the Republican party, then 
just happened to be in the right place at the right time with a very good 
staff to make him sound smarter than he really is.  Huge obstacles.  My 
kind of obstacles.  We should *all* have such obstacles.

>... but individuals are
>not powerless. One person makes a difference in many people's lives;
>don't you remember Clinton's grandfather story? One person can change
>the world: don't you remember Mother Theresa or Mohandas Gandhi or
>Martin Luther King, Jr., or Jesus Christ?

How kind of you to mention Governor Clinton's grandfather.  The other 
people you mentioned were only powerful because of their followers, alone 
they were powerless, well maybe Jesus is the exception but then He is God.

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