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To: Ilaine who wrote (53461)	8/29/1999 5:39:00 PM
From: jbe	Respond to of 108807

Blue, there are two problems here, as I see it. The first problem comes with the definition of "liberal." Although I would call myself a "liberal," I most emphatically would not discriminate against someone with different views, because I would consider that "illiberal" -- as it is. You seem to connect "liberalism" with a particular set of views on current political matters. My own definition of liberalism would focus on more enduring liberal values -- of which tolerance is one. Secondly, there have been times when what you would call "liberals" were the ones being discriminated against in academe -- notably (but not exclusively) in the fifties. My conclusion is that in-groups, whether "liberal", "conservative," or whatever, tend to discriminate against out-groups. One of the nastier constants of human nature. Joan