Re: RAT Cheese it, the Fuzz!

[jonoh1@juno.com]

   So your beef is that I didn't acknowledge the clearly dreadful
childhood you experienced? Ok. Sorry, dude. What can I say? But <I>
didn't do it to you. And, yes, generalizations <are> bad. And if my
saying that it's just as bad to make broad generalizations about cops as
it is to make broad generalizations about homosexuals, women,
African-Americans, rich people, theatre people, fat people, old people,
poor people or protesters in Seattle, then color me liberally
reactionary. And sorry, can't help the freshman satire. It's a gift.
Thanks for the gold star. I'll put it on the refrigerator next to
the....oh...well, it's the first one I've ever gotten. It'll look nice
all by itself.
Jonny

On Tue, 07 Dec 1999 08:30:15 -0800 "William Houts" <houts.w@ghc.org>
writes:
>>specifically, is that if one is going to make such broad 
>generalizations
>>about an entire group of people (all cops are cops because they were
>>abused as children) and assume them to be true, then the opposite 
>could
>>be equally true just as easily. (All protesters are tree-hugging
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>You're still not cluing in to what was actually said, and continue to 
>behave as if you're addressing a child.  
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>Some generalizations, I fear, are based in experience.  My experience, 
>as I've pointed out twice now, and which has been ignored by you in 
>favor of freshman satire, is one of living cheek-by-jowel with the 
>people I've described. Those people spoke casually about the violence 
>of their early  lives, and nearly in the next breath spoke of the 
>casual violence of their present occupations.  It hardly seems worthy 
>of comment, let alone controversy,   to relate the former to the 
>latter.  Because there was nothing special about these cops from 
>Tacoma, Washington.  They could just as easily have come from LA, or 
>Madison, Wisconsin. And I knew them from a thousand barbecues, keggers 
>and baseball games. Bull sessions in the garage while they changed the 
>oil.
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>What have you offered, on the other hand, but the canned pieties of a 
>reactionary liberalism?  "Generalizations are bad!"   Well, good for 
>you, Jonny.  You get a GOLD STAR. 
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