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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian
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To: X Y Zebra who wrote (8350)7/11/2000 10:50:53 AM
From: epicure   of 9127
 
People are less cruel than they have been in the past. The PC thing is one, rather odd, example of that. In schoolyards in suburbia violence is way down- because it has been redefined. All those shoving matches and the really horrible name calling is no longer tolerated as a "kids will be kids" activity- it is defined now as unacceptable and it does not occur as it did when I was a child. I do think violence in urban areas is much more extreme, though.

Grown up people are less cruel about other people- people no longer feel comfortable using racial epithets publicly. I think this is a great step forward- since speech/thought precedes action- and when you change speech you change thinking and when you change thinking you change actions.

I think there is much cause for hope.
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