From: prabhak@atto.cs.umn.edu (Satya Prabhakar)
Subject: Naive Foreigners (Re: Nitya/abortion rights/s.s.chawathe)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 10:47:06 GMT

Title change authorized by the Central Bureau of Title Changes under
act TC75.92.C34. :-)

(Shivram Halan) writes:
>>       Most successfull Indians come from families who have
>>strong family values. They know how much support the family pro-
>>vides in their most depressed moments. Compare american families
>>and indian families. You can see a lot of difference. President
>>bush has refered to the indian families as the model that ameri-
>>can families need to look upto and learn. Behind every successful

	If Judy Mann had called me, I would have suggested that
	multiculturalism is explicitly wrong, because it denies
	the superiority of Western values as a way of life for
	humans! 

					-- Newt Gingrich
   					Republican Whip
			***

	"Machiavelli was more daring; when he served the devil
	 he disdained going about his business in the livery of
	 heaven.."

Republicans have mastered the art of codeword propaganda. Lest the
naive foreigners were to miss the point, the word 'family values"
is the Republican codeword for heterosexual, white anglo saxon, two parent
family which disdains abortion and perhaps even contraception. Are
we there yet? Nope. To really belong to the core of the Republican
party you must be in the upper reaches of social position. Call that
'rich.' Oh, I forgot, you gotta believe in Judeo-Christian God, for
as President Bush said once that atheists should not probably be
considered good citizens of good ol' USA! 

Never before have I witnessed a presidential candidate succeed in 
condensing such despicable hate towards anyone (that is at variance 
with the professed Republican ideals) into a narrow compass of a
convention speech. The speaker: an adored republican leader, Pat 
Buchanan. And the very same person has advocated screening of
immigrants so that they better fit into the predominantly white
American populace.

All this under the thin veil of 'family values'! And these foreigners
with limited powers of comprehension think that Republicans are
espousing nice and homey family values. And they  believe that Bush 
thinks Indians are American role models! Sure, and I am Hulk Hogan 
with a chess rating of 3250!

As if they are the preferred custodians of the family 
ethic in this country and as if morality and even God is their
sole preserve.  

And then you have Rev. Pat Robertson who thinks feminists are 
radical witches out to kill babies, practise vodoo and lesbianism. 
These, ladies and gentlemen, are what Republicans have to offer as 
leaders to the world's superpower. 

In 1988 it was Willie Horton and the lawless blacks, this time it is
Murphy Brown and immoral single mothers. Who will it be the next time,
Stevie Wonder and the handicapped??

Then we have our Dan Quayle. Perhaps no other man has walked down
the aisle of political fame with such meager intellect at this command.
The less we speak about him the better.

With such explicit racism staring at your face, how can we even think
that Republicans are sympathetic towards foreigners?

   "Woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that
    offenses come, but woe to the man by whom the offenses cometh!"
 							-The Bible

Satya Prabhakar
(satya@ssdc.honeywell.com) 
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