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To: TimF who wrote (168404)	4/23/2003 11:13:14 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577566

When one leading senator and several lesser politicians suggest... You will always find prominent people hinting, suggesting, or even out right saying very negative things, but no one with any political power is even suggesting the idea of new laws imposing segregation. Anyone who does commits political suicide and even someone who makes a comment that could be considered possibly racist gets burned by the suggestion. There are many ways to skin a cat. These biases that some people have will effect judgments made on a lot of different levels. These people have access and control over huge sums of money. Therefore, to say that no new laws will be passed which put their biases into effect means little to me. By cutting off funding in key areas, the same result can be accomplished. And there is a bigger issue....why don't they know that what they're saying has negative implications for certain groups? And why don't they expect to get censored? Lott didn't get it and Santorum still doesn't get what the furor is about? And how Santorum thinks homosexuality effects the family is beyond me. Sometimes its hard to believe we are in the 21st century. 2 - Being bigoted does not equal not believing in the equal rights for all people. I don't understand your thinking. When people could openly express their biases, the rights of some group or groups were curtailed. That's why its politically incorrect to express and promote your biases. You can hate or dislike or not respect a race or religion or other group and still think they should have equal rights. I suppose anything is possible but its not very probable. 4 - You didn't address the "its not only Republicans". Its not only elected Reps. but its mostly Reps. Look I know that there are a lot of prejudicial people in this country but they don't openly express their views. And even when they do, I don't like it but I don't let it bother me. With elected officials, I hold them to a higher standard and expect them to be above that shit.....at least in public. 5 - There are bigoted people in both parties but they have no real power to push a bigoted agenda. The hint of trying causes a negative reaction and actually trying would destroy them as a politician. I hope your right. I worry that if this country got into some major problems/catastrophes like I experienced in LA....all the biases would rear their ugly heads and all kinds of unpleasant stuff could happen. Every attempt short of using the law has been made to silence critics of the president. Not really, that's an exaggeration. And to the extent that anything like this has happened it has happened under just about every administration in modern times. You make a criticism and you have to deal both with people who think the criticism is wrong and unfair and of course those who counterattack just for partisan political reasons. Both parties (and other political groups and organizations) have their attack dogs. I don't think I have ever seen anything like this. Its possible that I a more aware of these things and that's the problem but I doubt it. There is a tremendous fear of being attacked. Just reading the interview between Sawyer and the Dixie Chicks makes that clear. The right is extraordinarily sensitive to any criticism and attacks very quickly. I don't like the atmosphere that those attacks create. ted