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Politics : The Bigot Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (24)	4/18/2004 12:10:05 PM
From: E	Respond to of 740

Message 20036001 The above wasn't posted to me personally, though I belong to one of the categories against which it displays bigotry. Actually, two, but I'm omitting one category (women whose religious/moral views don't prohibit choice where abortion is concerned) from my list below. The post to which it responds offers a sexual metaphor for economics, specifically on the subject of the pressures on companies to outsource. One possible response to a comparison of the competitive pressures felt by a girl in the sexual culture of her high school, and the competitive pressures felt by a business in the economic culture of their particular business, might have been to discuss the similarities, or differences between the two. This poster might have replied, "The girl is responding to a natural desire to be perceived in her world as a fit partner, and having a boyfriend, in the culture you describe, is a fitness-display. (In another culture, virginity would be a fitness-display; in another, already having a child (a proof of fertility) would be one.) ... In the culture of business, the fitness competition is won by commercial appeal, and outsourcing gives that to the business." More could be said in an evolutionary psych/economics comparison of 16 year old girls who want to appeal to potential boyfriends and businesses who want to appeal to potential customers. It's hard to imagine how that economics metaphor could trigger a bigotry-display against ~ those who belong to a different political party ~ gays ~ anyone with sexual mores differing from those of the poster in a libertarian direction ~ American women in the aggregate ~ the Spanish The final sentence in that (not very long) post is illuminating in a couple of senses: "And the emerging New American Renaissance will deal with the rest of it, in ways yet to be seen..." Below are a couple of paragraphs from the American Renaissance website: What We Believe Race is an important aspect of individual and group identity. Of all the fault lines that divide society—language, religion, class, ideology—it is the most prominent and divisive. Race and racial conflict are at the heart of the most serious challenges the Western World faces in the 21st century. The problems of race cannot be solved without adequate understanding. Attempts to gloss over the significance of race or even to deny its reality only make problems worse. Progress requires the study of all aspects of race, whether historical, cultural, or biological. Race is one category the poster doesn't refer to, though. It may be that even on the GWB thread, that one category would be considered unacceptable bigotry.