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Re: RAT Cheese it, the Fuzz!
i like deviled ham
matt
"Sylvain, John" wrote:
> 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!
> >
> > >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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > --Bill
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