Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id UAA06061 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 9 May 2002 20:40:32 +0100 Message-ID: <000901c1f792$19d59c40$dda5eb3e@default> From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be> To: <kennethvanoost@myrealbox.com> Subject: Fw: future language Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 21:45:00 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Scott Chase <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
> > Well, to make some crucial qualifiers to what I've said about diversity
> > preservation, I'd not lament the loss of cultural practices like female
> > circumcision, cannabilism, honor crimes or others of that reprehensible
> ilk.
> > Here in the U.S. we've managed to eliminate some of our more
reprehensible
> > practices and institutions like slavery and added a couple good ones
like
> > women's suffrage and civil rights though patriarchy and racism have a
ways
> > to go before going extinct. Good riddance when (or if) they do.
> >
> > But, I still think there's a lot to be learned and even more reasons for
> the
> > maximization of diversity, as long as said diversity doesn't involve the
> > violation of basic human rights.
> >
> > Hi Scott,
> >
> > I think you are in the wrong here concerning that it is a good point to
> get
> > rid of racism or whatever is being seen as " wrong " out there !
> >
> > Don 't get me wrong me, though, I recognise that racism is no good at
> > all, but you can 't just eliminate it by making up laws ordering people
to
> > do so_ that implies, involves the violation of basic human rights !
> > If, racism has a genetical or for that reason a memetical bias you just
> > can 't forbid people to be racistic, it won 't work !
> > If you do, you set up people against their inner themselves and that is
> > in my book perversive to the extreme.
> >
> > In my country, Belgium, it is by law forbidden to express oneself as to
> > be anti-semitic, we have a few anti- racistic laws to, even a centrum
> > for equality and human rights. All for the best, I know and I presume it
> > is, but try to understand what went on in our minds in the period of the
> > Israel- Palestinian clashes. Pro- Palestinian demonstrations were beat
> > up, basically due to the anti- racistic anti- semitic laws, where do you
> > think my basic human freedom to protest was !?
> >
> > What Israel did played up my emotions and there was no platform, no
> > public forum avaible left to express mine and our feelings !
> > Do you think that is good or right ! I don 't !
> > And concerning this thread, banning racism as a word can 't bann the
> > fact of it !
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Kenneth
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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