I do wonder sometimes about the level of respect shown to the (
few?) posters that happen to differ about certain issues on this
board. The sneering dismissal of the honest efforts of people of
goodwill to communicate that the poster skewers so well in his satire
exists on both sides of the question in my opinion. I think it's
wonderful to tear into lame ideas with gusto, but to just tar all of
your discursive enemies as stupid, and incapable of real thought---
well, that's sort of cheap to me.
I don't think "minorities" fear competition or thoughtful criticism
half as much as they fear being put into some conceptual box where
they and their positions are wrong by definition.
Chip Thomas