The recent (60 years ago) past is not history?
> I see a problem with the logic here. We are talking about
> Virginia history,
> and you continue to bring in events that happened in the recent
> past. If you
> stick to the topic, you may get some helpful responses.
>
> Anita
> >From: "Lyle E. Browning" <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
> > <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: The Law & Lynching
> >Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:08:57 -0400
> >
> >By your logic, then only German and Austrian Nazis qualify? None of the
> >other nationalities? No Nazis who moved to South America? No neo- Nazi
> >skinheads, White Aryan Nation types, of the more recent mutations, etc.
> >etc. etc.?
> >
> >I do not ascribe to the hyper-relativist argument as it only leads to the
> >bad guys proliferating. Once again, Hitler was an insignificant small
> >group of 1 who metastasized into the full-blown horror. Likewise the
> >growth of Islamic extremists or you name the group starts with a few and
> >grows into the many.
> >
> >My view on them is quite simple. Stomp the hell out of all of them,
> >regardless of origin.
> >
> >If that is still incomprehensible to you, we agree to disagree, with my
> >sympathies.
> >
> >Lyle Browning, RPA
> >
> >
> >On Jun 25, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Anne Pemberton wrote:
> >
> >>Lyle,
> >>
> >>Your last response reminds of the old "one drop rule" whereby if a
> >>person's heritage include "one drop" of non-white blood, they were
> >>"demoted" to the discriminated-against group.
> >>
> >>Why does it bother you so much that a handful of African-American MAY be
> >>racists when there are still so many white-Americans who still boldly
> >>express their racism. If one racist is one too many, it seems you should
> >>focus your scolding on the largest groups, rather than the
> >>insignificantly small group.
> >>
> >>Let's clean up our own boots before we point to the mud on our neighbor's
> >>boots.
> >>
> >>Anne
> >>
> >>
> >>Anne Pemberton
> >>[log in to unmask]
> >>http://www.erols.com/apembert
> >>http://www.educationalsynthesis.org
>
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