From: AHEMP01@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU (Amy Hemphill)
Newsgroups: houston.general,tx.politics,rice.politics
Subject: Re: Anti-choice vs. Pro-abortion (was Re: Houston Defending Choice Coalition needs you)
Date: 21 Aug 92 09:34:21 GMT
Organization: Rice University

>
>I thought not: just another modern student-activist who shows up the pro-
>choice rally, does her "thang," jumps back in her BMW, and goes off to party.
>
I truly resent the idea that all pro-choice ralliers who happen to be in
college could be categorized this way. Wanna talk prejudice? That's it right
there.
 
>
>Nah, you're quite right, Lorra.  The poor are *such* downers.  Gawd, I
>can hardly bear to meet the eyes of the beggars on street corners, any
>more, don't you know?  Let's round 'em all up, march 'em into concentration
>camps, and put the poor wretches out of their misery, eh?  No way your
>white, middle-class children should grow up seeing such a thing, eh?  Out
>of sight, out of mind, even if it's six feet under.
>
 
NOW WAIT JUST ONE DAMN MINUTE!!!!  I don't think that the argument that it
is possible to be better not to bring a new life into an ugly, desparate
situation is at ALL the same as saying that everyone who already lives in an
ugly and desparate situation should be killed.  Not once in her argument did
she even so much as hint at that.  If we are going to be fair here, and try to
get others to see our views, lets not twist them to such sick and depraved
thoughts, shall we?  I do believe that if you will look back, YOU came up with
this idea about killing poor or sick or old people.  Now THAT is sick.  I do
not know anyone in my realm of pro-choice, college, rally attending friends who
would in ANY way advocate such a stance.  So, do not go attributing ideas as
sick as that to people who NEVER ONCE even HINTED at holding them.
 
>
>>Do you really sit in your little glass house and think 'they are really
>>just glad to be alive'....
>
>Yes.  When it's a choice of desperate poverty, or being marched into the gas
>chambers by your kind, definitely yes.
>
You know as well as I do that this is not even worth responding to.
 
>
>No, you're a college-educated sociopath, a spoiled little brat who's been
>educated beyond her intelligence, who has no capacity for human empathy.
>A typical specimen of your kind.
>
 
You know, I'd really like to know what gave you such a twisted view of college
aged/educated people.  I would assume that, because you have the access to
read and post here, that you are in some way affiliated with a college as well.
Once again, I ask politely, though difficultly so, to not categorize all
people in college who happen to believe in something enough to march for it
as 'sociopaths' and 'spoiled brats.'  Meet some of us.  These are words no one
has ever in the past used about me, and I dare say I'm not alone.
 
>[Blathering idiocy about killing the elderly, the mentally ill, and AIDS
> patients.]
 
Like I said, bub.  No one before you even so much as implied that these were
options.  As you are so fond of saying, take a look at what the other side
thinks before condemning it.  I've NEVER heard tactics like these advocated
at any of the rallies or marches I've been to.
 
>Grow up.  Join the Army or the Peace Corps, see the world, grow a personality.
>Maybe we'll take you seriously, then.
>
 
I'd like to hope that no one could take lunatic ravings like these you've
shown us seriously.  And I'd also like to think that someone doesn't have to
join the Army or Peace Corps, or be able to afford foreign travel in order to
be taken seriously.  You know, in some of the colleges us sociopaths and
spoiled brats go to, they do actually teach a thing or two about the world.
It's even required for graduation in most places that the student have a clue.
 
>
>---
>Robert Dorsett
>rdd@cactus.org
>...cs.utexas.edu!cactus.org!rdd
 
Amy Hemphill
ahemp01@ricevm1.rice.edu