From: labach@acs.ucalgary.ca (Terence Michael Labach)
Subject: Re: You're a racist! statements
Originator: labach@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 13:35:34 GMT
	<1992Sep28.015210.14174@umbc3.umbc.edu> <5601@news.duke.edu>
	<1992Oct1.012930.10466@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca>
Organization: The Bobby Jurasin Fan Club

In article <1992Oct1.012930.10466@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> cs911461@ariel.yorku.ca (CHRISTIAN D. ARMOUR) writes:
> "Whitey" must be careful to remain interested in the ancient histories of
> the immigrant's country but the immigrant is invited to ignore "whitey's"
> role in the building of the country he emigrated to (because "whitey" is
> such a low-life).  "Whitey" must not take offense at people who invade his
> workplace and speak foreign tongues he cannot understand.  He must instead
> encourage this because he is a dirty rotten bugger.  "Whitey" must deny
> at all times that other groups can be overtly racist -- only "whitey" is
> capable of racism.  If "whitey" is to redeem his right to exist, he must
> pay for the sins of his ancestors.  

Yawn.  For all your whining about "whitey", your complaints have a very
familiar tone that has nothing to do with colour.  When my _white_
ancestors came to Canada from Ukraine, paranoids like you were
complaining about their "foreign tongue" and how we failed to have
respect for Canada because we kept our clothing and traditions.

However, we came to Canada for the same reason so many others did - to
be free - and your fascist rantings will not change the fact that this
is a country where we can be free.  There are lots of dictatorships
around the world if you want to move someplace where the government
tells eveyone what to do.

> I don't buy this shit.  I treat everyone with the respect they deserve.
> If they don't deserve respect, I don't give any.

I'll bet you even believe that, don't you, child?  Even though you just
wasted a ton of bandwidth showing that you have no respect for anyone.

>  Every day, I see large groups of Chinese, banding
> together.  I see large groups of Blacks, banding together.  I see large
> groups of Sikhs, banding together.  The same goes for every possible 
> ethnic group, except whites.  Whites are expected to belong to every
> single ethnic group and absorb these cultures but not the other way 
> around.  

Huh?  The only pressure I've had to join any ethnic group has come from
my parents! :-)

> Disclaimer: In anticipation of the hundreds of flames I'm about to 
> receive, please note that I harbour no contempt for any race of 
> human beings on Earth.  Multiculturalism and it's premise that whites
> are tainted with original sin at birth is something which makes it
> difficult for me to be the friend of anyone who barricades themselves
> into a particular ethnic enclave.  

Of course the central tenet of multiculturalism is not white "original
sin", nor is the central tenet of Buddhism every man for himself, nor is
the London Underground a political movement.  Can you remember that?

- terry -
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 that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy.  It is
 more than merely painful, it is disusting."
 - George Orwell, _Burmese Days_
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