From: k206027@smog.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE (Bakayaroo Banzai)
Subject: Re: Here's why I love this guy...
Organization: Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH, Hamburg
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 09:08:56 GMT

In article <18NOV199208462066@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu> mitcheec@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (Elliott Mitchell) writes:
>In article <p9kql9c@lynx.unm.edu>, 
>hagerjd@leo.unm.edu (John D. Hager) writes...
>
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>
>Well, I must admit that I am simply a 47-year-old white male, one who has 
>seen only the slightest of discrimination against me (in my earlier years, 
>when my hair was bright red) and who has had almost no obstacles placed in 
>my way.
>
>That doesn't stop me from understanding that people who are not like me 
>have encountered totally different circumstances, oweing largely to the 
>fact that they are not like me.
>
>My point is, I have broken loose from the blinders that white-males seem to 
>be born with, (to some extent and not, I will freely admit, as much as I 
>would like) so why can't thEwIndBag?
>
I'm sorry but I find these last two statements to be unbearably pompous
and self-righteous. Maybe this was not your intent when you wrote them
but they come across to me as if you are soliciting for personal worship
as some sort of "New White Male". I don't think anyone here disagrees
about the fact that minorities have been brutally persecuted in this 
country and continue to be discriminated against. What people disagree
on is how the wrongs should be righted.

I'm a white male and I *have* been discriminated and harassed (i'm 5'2").
I have been called names since I was 5, discriminated against for 
promotions and been beaten up simply because of my size. Nevertheless,
I have built a career, raised a family, and live a satisfying life.
My grandparents were poor Sicilians who came over on the boat and 
were hated and discriminated against even by fellow Italians. This
ongoing scapegoating of White Males for all of America's ills is
ludicrous and self-defeating. It's just a symptom of denial coming
from people who want to change the rules to favor themselves. Rather
than climb a mountain they simply want to blow it up and walk through
the rubble.

As for Rush he certainly can be an ass at times but like all human
beings he occasionally speaks the truth. Personally, I don't find
him to be any more obnoxious than many of the people he lampoons.
I certainly don't find him to be a hate-monger or a Nazi. These
words are rapidly losing any real descriptive value thanks to their
continued mis/overuse by people such as yourself. As for being *divisive*
anyone who issues a dissenting opinion could be said to be divisive.
Your inference that Rush is somehow less of a person than you because
you've "broken loose from the blinders" would be hilarious if it weren't
so pathetically self-serving. If I agree with Rush occasionally does
that automatically make me a blindered White Male? 

BTW, If you'd like to meet some *real* White Nazi Hate-mongerers with
blinders on why don't you come over here to Germany? I could set you
up in an asylum hotel in Rostock for a couple of nights. Come to think
of it you could just drive on up to Idaho for a day or two. Might help
put things in perspective for you. 

Matt Marchese
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