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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (40246)	8/27/2002 11:51:32 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>>‘Blaming is especially difficult in terrorist situations because someone is at fault. In this country, we still believe that all people are innocent until solid, reliable evidence from our legal authorities proves otherwise’ — which presumably means we should wait till the trial and, given that what’s left of Osama is currently doing a good impression of a few specks of Johnson’s Baby Powder, that’s likely to be a long time coming. Instead, the NEA thinks children should ‘explore the problems inherent in assigning blame to populations or nations of people by looking at contemporary examples of ethnic conflict, discrimination, and stereotyping at home and abroad’. << Actually, I agree with the NEA on this one. I disagree with the conclusion that teaching children to make informed judgments, and to withhold judgment until they are informed, means, ipso facto, blaming America. That would not be an informed judgment. It is no more rational than blaming all Muslims for 9/11. I deeply regret the internment of Japanese-American citizens during WWII. It was later found to be unconstitutional (internment of Japanese-born residents - not citizens - was found to be constitutional). The NEA project is, for the most part, admirable. Let's don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. neahin.org

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (40246)	8/27/2002 12:47:26 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine, here's the core of what bothers me about Steyn, at least this quote. George W. Bush had a rare opportunity after 11 September. He could have attempted to reverse the most toxic tide in the Western world: the sappy multiculturalism that insists all cultures are equally valid, even as they’re trying to kill us. No "culture" is trying to kill us; it's a gang called Al Qaeda. The kindest way to read that Steyn quote is that it's just over the top hyperbole; the least kind is that he means what he says. But if it's the latter then he's not only wrong, he falls right into the bin Laden trap and walks us down the path to a "clash of civilizations. And one has to wonder why he's so worked up over multiculturalism. But we all know why. He's trying to use 9-11 to discredit things he doesn't like. An old tactic but one that should not be supported.