Date: Sun, 09 Nov 1997 21:05:25 -0500
From: Paul Stone <pas-AT-MNSi.Net>
Subject: Re: PLC: sticking up for things


>For Paul, remember that you may not understand the group well enough to be a
>reliable expert on what constitutes "an insult" to that group.  Above all,
>meddling is best avoided. Tread carefully in telling Jews what you think they
>should be allowed to say about the Nazis, Black people what you think they
>should be allowed to say about slavery, Turks what you think they ought to be
>allowed to say about the Armenians, and Armenians what you think they ought
>to be allowed to say about the Turks.  

	I will do this when people of the aforementioned groups stop telling me
how 'privelidged' my life is as a white protestant heterosexual male.
	Here is a perfect example of what I was referring to: a certain person in
the Phil-LIt group made what could be considered a harassing remark to a
young woman and was not publicly reprimanded. Personally I did not take
offense to this remark, but I thought it was much more severe than Mr.
Trail's Boy Scout joke. The man was not kicked, and not even publicly
reprimanded. Should I only let women speak up to this subject? Am I not
able to talk about the harassment of others? If not, then I shan't ever get
pissed off. Because every one knows how peachy my silver-spoon life is. 

wolffy




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