On Wed, 09 May 2007 18:10:31 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/09/07 10:40, Amy Templeton wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 05/08/07 23:17, Amy Templeton wrote: > >>> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:03:18PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>>>> On 05/08/07 21:55, Amy Templeton wrote: > >>>>> [snip] > >>>>>> It's a private college, and have no desire to make this > >>>>>> anywhere near that insane, but thank you nonetheless. I'm > >>>>>> basically wishfully hoping for a quiet solution. > >>>>> If it's liberal, and it probably is, you could claim > >>>>> Discrimination. All the more so since you're female. > >>> I appreciate the suggestion, but I'd rather not pull status on this > >>> one, you know? That is a card to be saved up and used in an > >>> emergency to which it has direct bearing, or else it loses all > >>> meaning and becomes trite. Thanks, though. > > > >> There are those of us who believe that claims of discrimination > >> became trite many years ago. > > > > I'm inclined to disagree; it is more subtle now, but it still > > exists. Do some reading on the concepts of privilege and > > intersectionality and if you don't buy it, we can talk more then > > (or if you do, either way). > > My point is that there have been so many spurious claims (from > either anger/revenge or hypersensitivity) that there is automatic And some instigated by believers in False Memory Syndrome. > "negative" suspicion among fair-minded men who ordinarily would be > "on your side". > > Similarly, the Duke Non-Rape Case *will* severely harm real rape > victims, by lowering a serious cloud of doubt/mistrust above them. > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
