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   ZOOT HORN ROLLO to All   
   Hate Speech   
   31 Aug 05 17:50:05   
   
   From: ZHR@BEEFART.CO.UX   
      
   'If you study the opinions that prevail in modern academies, you will   
   discover that they are of two kinds: those that emerge from the constant   
   questioning of traditional values, and those that emerge from the attempt to   
   prevent any questioning of the liberal alternatives. All of the following   
   beliefs are effectively forbidden on the normal American campus: (1) The   
   belief in the superiority of Western culture; (2) The belief that there   
   might be morally relevant distinctions between sexes, cultures, and   
   religions; (3) The belief in good taste, whether in literature, music, art,   
   friendship, or behavior; and (4) The belief in traditional sexual mores. You   
   can entertain those beliefs, but it is dangerous to confess to them, still   
   more dangerous to defend them, lest you be held guilty of "hate speech"-in   
   other words, of judging some group of human beings adversely. Yet the   
   hostility to these beliefs is not founded on reason and is never subjected   
   to rational justification. The postmodern university has not defeated reason   
   but replaced it with a new kind of faith-a faith without authority and   
   without transcendence, a faith all the more tenacious in that it does not   
   recognize itself as such.'   
      
   http://www.city-journal.org/html/9_2_urbanities_what_ever.html   
      
      
   ROBBIE   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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