Tim,
Basically we seem to agree ... it just comes down to interpretation of
words, which often appears to be the case on lists like this ... and the
reason I usually do not get involved to any great extent.
> Experience on this list shows how difficult it is to get through to even one
> pe
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From: "tdunlop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, 11 April 2000 7:30
Subject: Re: [recoznet2] Thin edge of wedge politics
> I enter this discussion tentatively, and with a hope to learn. It's
> conf
Neil,
You make some really good points, ones I'm not really disagreeing with, just
trying to nut out.
Neil wrote:
>
>My own personal opinion is that only considering individuals as racist
>does nothing to help or solve the whole racial problem.
I don't see how we can deal with it except it
Tim wrote
> Maybe. My suspicion is that such 'general' descriptions are meaningless and
> we are better off applying terms like racism to specific individuals.
My own personal opinion is that only considering individuals as racist
does nothing to help or solve the whole racial problem. As
te: Monday, April 10, 2000 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: [recoznet2] Thin edge of wedge politics
>I enter this discussion tentatively, and with a hope to learn. It's
>confusing to me on the whole. So...
>
>Laurie wrote:
>
>>I think that as a general description of "white Europe
I enter this discussion tentatively, and with a hope to learn. It's
confusing to me on the whole. So...
Laurie wrote:
>I think that as a general description of "white European society" the Mike
>Carlton passage selected by Neil is accurate.
Maybe. My suspicion is that such 'general' descrip
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From: Trudy & Rod Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, April 10, 2000 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [recoznet2] Thin edge of wedge politics
>Neil,
>
>I don't think it is wise to generalise like that. We wouldn&
On 10 Apr 2000, at 9:38, Trudy & Rod Bray wrote:
> Neil,
>
> I don't think it is wise to generalise like that. We wouldn't even be
> having this debate if there weren't people of European descent who are
> nothing like the description below.
>
> Trudy
>
> neil wrote:
> >
> > > Thin end of we
Neil,
I don't think it is wise to generalise like that. We wouldn't even be
having this debate if there weren't people of European descent who are
nothing like the description below.
Trudy
neil wrote:
>
> > Thin end of wedge politics
> >
> > By MIKE CARLTON
> >
>
> > .
> Thin end of wedge politics
>
> By MIKE CARLTON
>
> ... a miserly, mingy, minatory
> bunch if ever there was. It has a head but no heart, a brain but no
> soul. Without generosity of spirit, devoid of compassion, absorbed
> in narrow political self-intere
The Sydney Morning Herald [print edition]
Saturday April 8, 2000
Thin end of wedge politics
By MIKE CARLTON
In a week of horrors, there was one shred of good news for the
Government: with iron self-discipline, Peter Costello has learnt to
control that Cheshire Cat grin which so irritates eve
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