From: ml (mbtlehn@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sat Sep 11 2004 - 18:31:05 BST
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Buchanan" <DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 3:17 PM
Subject: RE: MD Political Correctness
> mel said:
> .............................................the gray
> area between rigorous rejection of an idea on the one
> hand and intolerance on the other is a judgement call.
>
> dmb says:
> A judgement call? No. We can discuss the relative merits of an idea AS AN
> IDEA and this is entirely legitimate no matter how vigorous the
discussion,
> no matter how good or bad the idea and no matter how stubbornly we may
cling
> to our views. But bigotry judges the value of persons according to race,
> enthnicity, gender and other unchangeable and irrelevant standards. There
is
> just no comparison between bigoty and the view that bigots are not good.
> Using this form of grotesque even-handedness, criminals and cops are the
> same because they both employ force to achieve their goals. This is not a
> judgement call so much as simply recognizing conventional distinctions.
And
> in Pirsigian terms, bigotry is a low quality social value and rigorous
> rejection of an idea is an intellectual activity. They different levels of
> reality.
>
>
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