You know them. I don't.

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You know them. I don't.

Tom Brosz — 12/6/2004 6:29:10 PM (archived)

Look, I can only work with the information I squeeze out of you over a half dozen posts. I don't know these people. I don't know what country they're going to that has a government morally superior somehow to ours. I don't know who ruled the country they did missionary service in, or who paid their way. I don't know how old they are, and if they remember Mai Lai, institutionalized racism, or any of the other flaws America has had to work through.

I don't know what taught them that somehow, here and now only, that America is a country whose soil they can no longer stand.

So, let's leave it at that. I work from information, and I don't have enough.

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Survey of college profs' political orientation - p - 12/3/2004 1:40:56 PM
- More concerned about the right-wing take-over of law enforcement and the armed forces. - alcaray - 12/6/2004 10:40:13 PM
- Let's purge the liberals!!!! - Mary Anne - 12/5/2004 3:25:33 PM
  - re: Let's purge the liberals!!!! - Larry J - 12/5/2004 4:51:10 PM
    - I merely give voice to the insinuation from the Right. - Mary Anne - 12/5/2004 6:05:19 PM
      - Foolish exaggeration is a poor technique - Larry J - 12/6/2004 1:57:50 AM
        
        The fact that academia is self-selected seems to escape you too. - Mary Anne - 12/6/2004 2:09:16 PM
        
        Would you be as complacent... - Larry J - 12/6/2004 4:31:15 PM
        
        Tell it to the Boy Scouts. (n/t) - Mary Anne - 12/6/2004 6:03:13 PM
        
        Couple points about the Boy Scouts - Larry J - 12/6/2004 8:20:19 PM
        
        re: I'll see your couple, and raise you a couple - Mary Anne - 12/7/2004 2:31:53 PM
        
        A clarification - Tom Brosz - 12/7/2004 5:08:26 PM
        
        By this definition... - Tom Brosz - 12/6/2004 5:33:56 PM
        
        "Foolish exaggeration is a poor technique" (n/t) - Tony - 12/6/2004 6:48:17 PM
        
        I was unaware that criticizing one's philosophy was equivalent to assault. - Mary Anne - 12/6/2004 6:02:31 PM
        
        Don't be thick. - Tom Brosz - 12/6/2004 6:21:49 PM
        
        *Can't* be? - Mary Anne - 12/6/2004 6:42:31 PM
      - re: insinuation from the Right. - Tom Brosz - 12/5/2004 8:03:29 PM
        
        Take your conservative academic experiences and apply them to adult life: Welcome to my world. - Mary Anne - 12/5/2004 9:28:20 PM
        
        Welcome to my world. - Tom Brosz - 12/5/2004 9:43:01 PM
        
        They're looking at an assortment of European nations. - Mary Anne - 12/6/2004 1:11:57 AM
        
        Fine. - Tom Brosz - 12/6/2004 3:57:22 AM
        
        There are lots of nations in Europe. - Mary Anne - 12/6/2004 2:31:42 PM
        
        So, what nations are on their "short list?" - Tom Brosz - 12/6/2004 5:06:54 PM
        
        We are only responsible for our own side. - Mary Anne - 12/6/2004 6:20:26 PM
        
        You know them. I don't. - Tom Brosz - 12/6/2004 6:29:10 PM
- Probably smarter and better informed than, say, you. And yours. Huh? (n/t) - Bowser - 12/4/2004 7:12:59 AM
  - probably wrong, but then you're used to that - p - 12/4/2004 4:08:08 PM
- And did you know that seawater is salty? Since when is this news? Since when is it "current events"? It is old hat. True, but very old. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 12/3/2004 2:57:54 PM
- Even more amazing........ - Publius - 12/3/2004 2:47:57 PM
  - ?? What subject are you talking about? This survey included many diverse discplines, not just political science. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 12/3/2004 2:59:20 PM
    - apparently liberal dominance is a tautologoical truth.... - Publius - 12/5/2004 3:40:17 PM

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