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To: Neocon who wrote (5584)	3/13/2003 12:42:37 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

"just as I was with Trent Lott, when calling for his resignation from the leadership......." I'll be damned. I had thought that might have been you...

To: Neocon who wrote (5584)	3/13/2003 12:58:52 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

I am only interested in the inflammatory nature of his remarks, just as I was with Trent Lott, when calling for his resignation from the leadership....... Jewel and I were chatting yesterday, I think, about the difference between hate speech and PC violations. I suggested that the difference was between bigotry and insensitivity. You and I have differed before on the reasonableness of becoming inflamed. You are more sympathetic to people who lose their composure over slights than I am. It seems to me that we should all be righteously indignant over bigotry but that insensitivity is more a shared failing with its counterpart, oversensitivity. People become inflamed by both certifiable bigotry and PC violations. I suggest that it is not wise to coddle the latter because it bullies people into not raising issues that need to be raised. Look how long it took some brave soul to articulate the problem with equating studying with "acting white." That Lott's comments and Moran's were both inflammatory does not mean that the same response is called for. For Lott's display of vestigial racism, the call for resignation was appropriate. For Moran's insensitivity, I suggest that some introspection and rebuke on both sides is appropriate. Inflammatory is an inappropriate measure, IMO, because it leaves the degree of offense to be measured by skin thickness or the listener rather than the behavior of the speaker.