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[Joe Varo]

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk wrote:

> Now would anyone care to comment on my latest GRGR post? Or is it so
> way off base that none of you even think it worth talking about? 

Andrew,

Since your latest GRGR post is so all-encompassing of the book, I'm trying
furiously to get this reading completed.  I'd hoped to do so in a marathon
session over the past weekend, but, no dice.  It has been awhile since my
last complete reading of GR and I want to get everything fresh in my mind,
lest I make inane comments.

> I'm bored, fed up, pissed off and generally underwhelmed by this
> continual straying into what are essentially trivial, narrow,
> middle-class US (it *has* to be said) liberal sensitive spots. 

You know, I've been wondering if all of this "ebonics", "hate-speech",
racism, an pc-stuff-in-general wasn't a peculiarly late 20th Century
American obsession. I think you just answered my unasked question.

> It's all such a load of pompous crap.

Unfortunately, I'm sure it seems that way to someone who doesn't have the
high honor of living in the wonderful US of A, but non-minorities over
here have just been so beaten about the neck and head with the guilt of
our ancestors that there's a tendency towards over-compensation, IMHO.

Personally, had I the wherewithal to do so, I'd become an expatriate.

> Maybe that's all we've got here.  But I would like to think it could be
> otherwise. 

I think you're safe in thinking otherwise.

Joe