kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU (08/23/86)
From: <T3B%PSUVM.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA> (Tom Benson 814-238-5277)
I've been reading the Poli-Sci digest with growing disappointment.
Then you should contribute more often. This isn't TV. What you
read is simply what people, including you, choose to send to the list.
The impulse to be free people seems constricted into a narrow
selfishness by so-called libertarianism.
We aren't necessarily selfish. We simply don't think anyone should
be COMPELLED to donate arbitrarily large amounts of money to dubious
causes of someone else's choosing.
A recent (3 August) note by Keith Lynch about "Good English,"
arguing that minority dialects are good for gutter talk
Please re-read my message. It was phrased as a QUESTION. In any
case, I argued that while individuals are free to deal with people who
'talk funny' or not, as they see fit, government has no business
distingushing.
seems to reveal quite adequately the racism that's part of the
value system here.
I don't see how you can find racism in anything I've said, unless
you are one of those liberals who scream "Racist!" at anyone who
opposes affirmative action programs.
I'm going to send in a request to be removed from the mailing
list.
Please stay. You cannot affect the contents of this list by leaving
or by threatening to leave, but only by contributing more.
...Keith
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