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From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Skinhead Group
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Date: 25 Jan 90 20:21:23 GMT
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In article <13460@cbnews.ATT.COM> wbt@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker,00440,cb,1D211,6148604019) writes:
|So far, I've seen a dozen postings saying "skinheads aren't all as bad
|as the ones you hear about."  I take this, therefore, as a fact.
|
|Yet is still leaves unanswered a basic question.  Just what in tarnation
|*do* skinheads stand for ?  Before I vote for or against a group for
|them, I want to know what purpose they intend for it.

Calvin, are you daydreaming again? What are the skinheads for?

   No, maam. They are for a type of music called ska, and they are generally
   nonviolent. They are probably less of a political/societal force than,
   say, new wave or the Carpenters. A small minority of neo-fascist flakes
   have adopted the skinhead look, and the mass media has helped make them
   into "a phenomenon".

|I base opinions on the information I have at hand.  To date,  all I have to
|go on is what I see and hear from mass media, and it makes skinheads look
|pretty bad.  If y'all want to change my vote, you'll have to change my
|opinion with some information.

VERY good, Calvin! Now, would you care to comment on the mass media's
handling of this?

   Not really. I would, however, note that people who form their opinions
   based primarily on taling the mass media as projecting reality scare
   me far more than all the self-proclaimed neo-nazis in this country.

Calvin, need I remind you that I own stock in mass media, to say nothing
of certain telecommunications companies?

   Well, teach, all I got to say is I've been a staunch loyalist to AT&T
   all this time, but some of their employees begin to worry me...

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---=*miles*=---