From: RAMADAMDINGDONG@P.ORG   
      
   "Bobby Farouk"  wrote in message   
   news:10miatrmcco5l0a@corp.supernews.com...   
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   I've never had any doubt about assimilation and how other cultures have and   
   may continue to benefit the one I come from. One of the most beautiful and   
   important discoveries (I guess you could all it cultural, though it extends   
   beyond that) is yoga, which is Indian and probably regarded as hippy dippy   
   in some reactionary quarters (I know the bible bashers are against it. My   
   theory as to why is probably because it tackles the things they purport to   
   tackle and makes you fit into the bargain).   
    No, my argument is with the set of state diktats and campus manifestos that   
   have prevailed in English institutions and civil life. Dr Dalrymple has said   
   what I think, basically, and when I've said in the past what he's said in   
   that article I've been jeered at, sneered at and generally howled down. Our   
   own resident nazi hunter Martha came after me and still thinks that I'm some   
   kind of roaring neocon because of it. The reason for the violent reaction is   
   of course that old chestnut Political Correctness (you still get people   
   blithely saying it doesn't exist but funnily enough they are almost always   
   very politically correct with years of campus life behind them) which hasn't   
   freed people but locked them into mutual suspicion and an inadaquate idea of   
   personal liberty and freedom of speech. Old Flaubert had it dead right for   
   Berkeley and similar: 'inside every revolutionary is a policeman.'   
      
   cheers   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)