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From: lucius@tardis.UUCP (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
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Subject: Re: Re: they vs it vs he vs she
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Date: Tue, 7-May-85 20:18:39 EDT
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> Associating darkness with evil has nothing to do with
> race.  Consider that the Asians, most south sea islanders, the
> eskimos, the laplanders, and dozens of other cultures associated
> darkness with evil long before they ever even heard that
> a race of people with black skins existed.  The association
> of black with evil has most to do with nightime and the
> terrors that existed in men's minds at the back of the
> caves they lived in 20,000 years ago.  Black skinned people
> harboured the same fears for the darkness that fair skinned
> people did.  The modern association is nothing more than
> a hobby horse dreamed up to give some sociologists a chance
> to present doctorial thesis'.
> T. C. Wheeler

	I don't doubt that that was the origin of the association of darkness
with evil, but given today's world-spanning society it has got to go.  Just
because something originates a certain way doesn't mean it is going to stay
that way.


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