From: randy (cryofan@mylinuxisp.com)
Date: Wed Apr 02 2003 - 05:32:55 MST
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 23:04:28 -0800, you wrote:
>Anders wrote
>
> >> http://vdare.com/letters/tl_033103.htm
>>
>> Hmm, I think I will refrain of saying something ad
>> hominem (ad retem?) about that site. But it is hard ;-)
>
>Olga writes
>
>> I have no such compunction: vdare.com is crap.
Surprise, surprise! Ad hom attacks on vdare.
>Damien B. wrote
>
>> I assume the term Anders was refraining from saying
>> is `racist'. Or perhaps `slyly, deceitfully racist'.
>
>Olga continues
>
>> As if links to Pat Buchanan, Phyllis Schlafly and Ann
>> Coulter aren't enough,
>
>No, they're not. I don't consider any of those individuals
>to be racists. I do disagree with Pat Buchanan about a lot
>of things. But what is the worst thing your or the others
>have found?
The word "racist" is a cliche, and is therefore useless as a tool for
discussion of issues.
>> how about this delectable morsel from the vdare.com site (regarding
>> the 14-year-old boy in 1955 who was killed in the summer of 1955 for
>> "what would now be called sexual harassment of a white woman")?:
>
>Good. Something specific. I assume, Olga, that the following is
>from that web site somewhere:
>
>> > VDARE.COM does not, as it happens, advocate lynching. But it cannot be
>> > denied that Till was lynched for what would now be called the sexual
>> > harassment of a white woman. And elementary math suggests that, in the
>> > almost five decades since his death, up to 1.5 million white women may have
>> > been raped by blacks.
>
>Is this typical? I *would* consider that racist. After all,
>where are the corresponding figures for black on black, white
>on black and white on white? Besides, from your link,
>
>> This is the story of the Emmett Till incident:
>> http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/early-civilrights/emmett.html
>
>I didn't see anything about "sexual harassment at all". Looked
>just like an old-fashioned lynching.
I am not sure what the incident discussed here is about, but vdare
generally sticks its nose into socially taboo areas, such immigration
(its main concern), multicultural diversity, race, etc. That is what
I love about vdare--they address issues that political correctness has
deemed out of bounds for political discussion.
Sheep can only lob pre-programmed ad homs. Wannabe posthumans
actively seek out discussion of important issues that society at large
ignores.
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