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14120, RE: BELATED RESPONSE
Posted by alek, Fri May-18-01 09:21 AM
>The tone where
>I asked "why is this
>guy afraid of the truth?"
>was wrong. There was no
>need for that kind of
>energy whatsoever.

Same goes for me. We need to cool our jets sometimes.

The tone that
>I wanted you to receive
>was, "Why challenge or even
>question me for typing historical
>quotes?" Had these been in
>a poster's signature, would it
>have been met like this?

I hope so. I say question everything.


>I just happened to group
>together observances of the many
>(original peoples) about one particular
>group (europeans). This is all
>fact isn't it? I.E. these
>quotes WERE said, weren't they?

Yes, and we were all commenting on them. HOWEVER, as you say, I tied them directly to you as the poster.
That was probably hasty.

>And since they are not
>my words, THEY and THE
>WHOLE post is immune from
>the racial bias that might
>be attributed to me.

Except that, you did add your own words. And you supported them continuously throughout the post, so I aligned you with the rhetoric in the original quotations, and I'm not sure that was a false assumption.

But that was a good point.

Alek

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