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From: dlo@drutx.UUCP (OlsonDL)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: America-bashing
Message-ID: <3378@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 15:16:04 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 26 15:16:04 1985
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> All I suggested was that we should try to
> understand those who hate us. The letter you responded to was about a
> man who was attacked on a foreign street for no reason. He wanted to
> know why. Good for him! You don't seem to want to know why, you just
> want to respond with more hate. That never solved ANYTHING. 

First of all, it was not on a foreign street. (just a correction).

Why is it "good for him"?  It may be a natural impulse to ask "WHY".  But,
good for him?  Is it up to him to fix his attacker's problems?

My complaint is with people who performed the following scenario on an
international scale:  (As far as I know, the following did not happen, but
just suppose it did for a moment.)  After the attack, this man is hurting,
scared, wondering, "Why me"?  Person X sees him and rather than trying to
soothe his wounds, instead decides that he must be guilty of something to
cause his attacker to beat on him.  Otherwise, why the attack?  So X reads
off a list of greivances that X thinks someone *like* him did to someone
*like* his attacker.  He protests.  X then tells him that even if he didn't
cause those greivances, he was obliged to fix them.  That in any case, he
is responsible, and therefore deserving of everything he got.

Again I say, NONSENSE!

These opinions are strictly my own, and do not necessarily reflect those
of my employer.

> Charles Forsythe
> CSDF@MIT-VAX
> "I always try to avoid cliche's like the plague!"
>         -Rev. Wang Zeep

David Olson
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"To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools". -- Jean de la Bruyere