Duking it out! (was peecee)

[Ted Samsel]

Henry (or H sez..)
 
> PC is OK when it's honest, invites dialogue, and is applied fairly. 
> PC=Liberal. For some of us, the only problem with the L word is that 
> the only R word anymore seems to be "Reactionary." 
> Whatever happened to Radical, anyhow... As in going to the root 
> cause. The only "radical" politicians in the news are the "Radical 
> Right."
> Oh, well...
> 
> Permit me a brief anecdote:
> 
> An anthropologist friend of my ex used to preach cultural relativism. 
> "After all, who are we to dictate behaviour to other cultures?" 
> And yet, she is a feminist, in a hurry to radically change our American 
> culture from it's traditionally sexist behavior. Am I missing 
> something here? When is a culture not a culture?

Close to what I was getting at.... another example is the overt hostility
to certain forms of worship that are not "correct". I'm referring to the
blood sacrifice found in Santeria, Vodoun, Candomble, etc that provoke
responses of horror from yer average NooAger. These are belief systems,
are they not? It seems that certain parties wish to "clean up" the
world (a messy old place, I'll grant you..) much like the Victorian
temperance types did  (and still are trying to do) at the end of the
last century...

"Can you imagine? Rum and smelly cigars on a church altar?"

"Has your orixa mounted you today?"

(And Diana, I'm patronized enough....)

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net  *1996* Year of the Accordion~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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