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From: lkk@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
Message-ID: <1245@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 16:08:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: teddy.1245
Posted: Tue Sep  3 16:08:19 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Sep-85 02:30:26 EDT
References: <1124@ihlpg.UUCP> <7800404@inmet.UUCP>
Reply-To: lkk@teddy.UUCP (Larry K. Kolodney)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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Summary: 

In article <7800404@inmet.UUCP> janw@inmet.UUCP writes:
>
> The third comment flows from the second and concerns South Africa.
>If the racist bigots there could sink to the *Communist* level,
>they could solve their problems. There *would* be majority rule.
>The *whites* would become the majority, by murdering the present
>majority. Fortunately, there are no signs of them contemplating
>such a "solution" - which fact underscores, once again, the moral
>chasm between the team Mr. Berman is betting against, and the
>one he is rooting for.
>
>	Jan Wasilewsky

UNFAIR, UNFAIR, UNFAIR!!!

Your analogy is entirely misleading.  Of course the white South Africans would
not exterminate the Black population in that country.  Their entire economy is
based upon exploiting that population.  To exterminate them would be to commit
national suicide.

What the Soviets are doing now in Afghanistan is at about the same level of
terrorism as what the U.S. did in Vietnam (operation Phoenix, napalm, Agent
Orange, etc.).

A better analogy is to compare the Soviets in Eastern Europe vs. the
the South African govt. in "Black Homelands".  The differences seem
to vanish.  I see no evidence that a worker in Transkei is an better off
than a worker in say Poland.  At least in Poland they live in a viable country
that is more than a parasitic creation of another (as in the case of Trankei).




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Sport Death,
Larry Kolodney
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