From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Wed Apr 02 2003 - 10:01:00 MST
From: "Lee Corbin" <lcorbin@tsoft.com>
> Anders wrote
> > 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.
>
> 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?
I never said Pat, Phyllis and Ann were racists. (They may well be, but I
didn't say that.)
Phyllis Schlafly has opposed the Equal Rights Amendment; is a big censorship
advocate (certain books, films - among them Romeo and Juliet, and sexually
explicit materials of all kinds), wants to control reproductive rights,
opposes sex education and AIDS education in schools ... er, had enough?
Besides the many other things with which I and Pat Buchanan would disagree,
he doesn't seem to understand what religious freedom is all about (and as an
nontheist, I have to keep my antennae tuned to such bigotry):
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7027/quotes.html
We spoke of Bill O'Reilly lately. Ann Coulter was the only right-wing guest
I've seen on his show who enraged O'Reilly enough (her particularly
obnoxious demeanor out-rivaled his own! i.e., made O'Reilly seem
oh-so-charming by comparison) that he *almost* started taking the
left/liberal position just to irk her. (Oh, gawd, that show is a scream
sometimes!) Ann certainly doesn't mince words:
We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate
liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed too. Otherwise they
will turn out to be outright traitors. -- Ann Coulter
And if you're really a glutton for punishment:
http://www.rightwingnews.com/quotes/coulter.php
> > 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.
Yes, it certainly is from the vdare.com website. (Ahhhh, but they say they
*don't* advocate lynching, how big of them.)
> 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?
Typical? IMO that's a bit like asking ... Are you a little bit pregnant?
> Besides, from your link,
> > 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.
Yet vdare.com states "... But it cannot be denied that Till was lynched for
what would now be called the sexual harassment of a white woman." With such
a biased view, how credible can this site be?
The Emmett Till lynching in the summer of 1955, coupled with the Rosa Parks
incident later that year, were two of the better known cases which gave
impetus (after decades and decades of such atrocities) to what eventually
came to be known as the civil rights decade.
Olga
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