Posted by kid_A on May 23, 2002, at 17:24:16
In reply to Re: Clarification » kiddo, posted by Ron Hill on May 23, 2002, at 16:47:54
Okay, I'll try to put this in the most civil terms I can. First any inclination that any of the aforementioned events, conversations, posts, whathaveyou have anything in the slightest bit in common with the racism/discrimination/segregation which occured during the civil rights movement is not only an irresponsible poorly thought out analogy, it also attempts to derive some type of sympathy by direct association with said events of the past. I dont think -anyone- is buying this logic.Second, to claim that all forms of segregation are the same is like trying to argue for coed bathrooms at a college campus. The argument makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, in my opinion, humble or not. Equating segregation of the boards with some form of human rights violation is not going very far to proving that much logic is being considered in the endevor to foster an environment where -everyone- is happy.
Why not just walk into the bookstore and ask them why in the world all the books aren't just in some great pile in the middle of the store for all to rummage through until they find what they want. Oh but books aren't people you say, but just like the words in the books the words that people post about in their messages are like books, and as such they do deserve some categorisation so that people looking for information can find it easily. Get the bookstore analogy, I surely hope so...
I'm going to go listen to The Cure's first album really really loud right now and try to figure out where this whole thing went pear shaped, and all logic flew out the window...
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