Re: The real problem with hate crime legislation

[Briana LeClaire <mmsmom1@yahoo.com>]

Attacking the messenger and not the message, I see.  Sure, I'll take
Mallard Fillmore (is that who you meant?) as the cartoon
representative of my point of view.

If you want to address issues, then do so.  How would you try to
prevent people from killing one another?

Yours, Briana


Dale Goble <gobled@uidaho.edu> wrote:
>
> 
> 
> Oh, sharp and cutting: Doonesbury-like.  Does that mean that your
> worldview is Millard Filmorish?  And does categorizing worldviews as
> cartoons appreciably advance discussion of important issues?
> 
> I always did have more questions than answers.
> 
> dlae goble 
> moscow
> 
> 
> On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Briana LeClaire wrote:
> 
> > Professor Goble, I realize there is probably little I can say or
do to
> > change your Doonsbury-like worldview.  However, for the record, it
is
> > my firm belief that the vast majority of those who dislike
homosexual
> > behavior, including Trent Lott and Pat Robertson, do not hate the
> > people who engage in that behavior.
> > 
> > As for those young "men" being pawns, I think they deserve much more
> > credit for their acts than you're giving them.
> > 
> > Yours, Briana
> > 
> > Dale Goble <gobled@uidaho.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > 
> > > is that it seldom reaches the purveyors of the hate.  Hate crimes
> > > legislation cannot punish Richard Butler and his Aryan Nations
for the
> > > crimes of The Order even though he created the moral climate
within
> > which
> > > its crime were possible.
> > > 
> > > Similarly, the Southern segregationists of the 1950s and 1960s
such as
> > > Strom Thurmond, George Wallace, and , created the moral climate
within
> > > which arson and murder were seen as legitimate acts to protect the
> > morally
> > > upright against the outsiders.
> > > 
> > > The two young men in Laramie are also pawns who responded to a
> > climate in
> > > which gays are presented as attacking the family and thus as
outside
> > the
> > > protection of God.  The Trent Lotts and the Pat Robertsons may now
> > > self-righteously wring their hands, but they are the people that
> > effective
> > > hate crimes legislation would jail for they are the purveyors of
the
> > hate
> > > that produces the crimes.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Dale Goble
> > > Moscow
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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