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Subject: Re: Flag Waver Speaks Out - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 16-Dec-83 04:30:18 EST
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uiuccsb!grunwald    Dec 15 22:41:00 1983

By the way, I've gotten a little hate mail about my flame about T.C. Wheeler
referring to Genji as "the Genji person." Some people did not understand the
context of my message.

Here is an excerpt of a message from T. C. Wheeler. In this excerpt, he uses
the phrase "the Genji person" in a demeaning way. He blows Genji into a more
global symbol, that of those people who are not born in this country, are not
grateful to this country and thus should go back to whereever they came from.

This is precisely what my previous argument about symbols and their ill effects
attempts to state. Mr Wheeler has evoked a symbol, a sterotype, to replace
the real person (Genji), whose views are, I am sure, significantly more complex
than the symbol that Mr. Wheeler projects on to him.

Certainly it should be obvious that this is harmful to an open discussion and,
even more importantly, an open society. Is this true, or am I being overly
sensitive in this matter?

/***** uiuccsb:net.flame / pyuxa!wetcw /  7:38 am  Dec  8, 1983 */

helping with the unemployment problem.  If the Genji person is
only hanging around for the "money", then the Genji person should
keep their mouth shut and let the rest of us get on with the
job of making this country a better place to live for everyone.

		T. C. Wheeler
United States Citizen (active)
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Dirk Grunwald
University of Illinois
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