-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/07 10:40, Amy Templeton wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/08/07 23:17, Amy Templeton wrote: >>> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:03:18PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>>>> On 05/08/07 21:55, Amy Templeton wrote: >>>>> [snip] >>>>>> It's a private college, and have no desire to make this >>>>>> anywhere near that insane, but thank you nonetheless. I'm >>>>>> basically wishfully hoping for a quiet solution. >>>>> If it's liberal, and it probably is, you could claim >>>>> Discrimination. All the more so since you're female. >>> I appreciate the suggestion, but I'd rather not pull status on this >>> one, you know? That is a card to be saved up and used in an >>> emergency to which it has direct bearing, or else it loses all >>> meaning and becomes trite. Thanks, though. > >> There are those of us who believe that claims of discrimination >> became trite many years ago. > > I'm inclined to disagree; it is more subtle now, but it still > exists. Do some reading on the concepts of privilege and > intersectionality and if you don't buy it, we can talk more then > (or if you do, either way).
My point is that there have been so many spurious claims (from either anger/revenge or hypersensitivity) that there is automatic "negative" suspicion among fair-minded men who ordinarily would be "on your side". Similarly, the Duke Non-Rape Case *will* severely harm real rape victims, by lowering a serious cloud of doubt/mistrust above them. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGQlTnS9HxQb37XmcRAvYfAKCmNEh3rQUP5DV6mvM+RbzALTEKzQCgtols 5/Gx2dfOchXEvgfS/MFdBwE= =i7dX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
