RE: RAT Cheese it, the Fuzz!

["Sylvain, John" <jsylvain@station.sony.com>]

Bill,

Calm down. Jesus. What are you the son of a cop or something?

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	William Houts [SMTP:houts.w@ghc.org]
> Sent:	Tuesday, December 07, 1999 8:30 AM
> To:	rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
> Subject:	Re: RAT Cheese it, the Fuzz!
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> >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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>    --Bill
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