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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: E who wrote (11428)4/15/2001 7:04:43 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
BTW, to most fundamentalists, the label is not anything to "defend" against. They wear it
with pride, I believe.

Many probably do. ButI'm quite sure they do not mean by it what you apparently mean by it.

Just as if you wear the label "woman" with pride you don't accept with that label the characteristics that the Taliban put on it.

What I found objectionable in your post was to take characteristics you have noticed in some people you have identified (or who have self-identified to you) as fundamentalists and assume that all fundamentalists have those characteristics.

It's very much like, I regret to say, the KKK pointing to the number of blacks in prison as proof that all blacks are crooks and lawbreakers and untrustworthy persons. You and I know it isn't true, but how do you fight that approach to people when you follow the same basic principle -- labeling a class on the bais of some experiences with it -- yourself?

I was disappointed in your initial post. I'm equally disappointed in your defense of it.
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