Re: Yaguello's stereotype: response to Roger
| From: | Adam Walker <carrajena@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 22, 2003, 15:05 |
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Quite true. And when refferring to Fundamentalist
Christians attention seems to be focused on some
nutcase who bomed an abortion clinic in the derranged
belief that God would be pleased with his sin since it
was committed against other sinners. No matter what
the group under discussion your principle seems to
hold.
Adam
--- Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>
wrote:
> >That's insulting. What you refer to is the
> behaviour of a minority of
> >French people who just happens by accident to have
> received more attention
> >than others. But my experience tells me that it's
> indeed a rare behaviour
> >among French scholars. And my experience also tells
> me that this
>
> In my 33 years of being progressively and socially
> active in the USA, I've
> found that attention most often is focused on those
> who are anomalous within
> any identifiable group or class. Hence, Blacks and
> Mexicans are lazy sex-mad
> thieves, the French are sex-mad egocentrics, gays
> are effeminate sex-mad
> pedophiles, etc. - obvioulsy very different from
> "normal" God-fearing
> citizens of the good ol' US of A.
>
> I always find interesting that, after gay pride
> marchs in Seattle, the TV
> news reports usually focuse on:
> 1. the overtly flamboyant drag queens - all 15 of
> them.
> 2. the leather dykes - all 10 of them.
> 3. the one side-line contingent of anti-gay
> protestors - all 8 of them.
> The remaining 1967 individuals - policemen,
> firefighters, doctors, people
> who look like your average John or Jane on the
> street - are ignored.
>
>
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