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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