Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/10

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Subject: Re: Re: Mugged!
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@cdsnet.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 00:42:17 -0700

At 10:24 AM 10/9/96 -0600, you wrote:
>you and quite a bit for the people you photograph and even the people who
>ripped you off--who in the long run will still be suffering or down and
>out?  Certainly not you after the insurance settlement.

You have made a reasonable point, up 'til this part. That is totally
ridiculous. People who rip people off by threat of violence deserve what
they get - jail. Let's hope. No sympathy for them. Lots more people come
from the same situation and live honorable lives. This overemphasis on
political correctness is destroying our Universities, and society as a
whole. My school was no goody two shoes here either, they put out a
politically correct book once (University of Missouri J-School) that said
we should not use the term Jew, but should say Jewish person. What
stupidity! As if the word Jew is an aspersion! 

Let's just get real here, okay? Overreacting to this one was totally out of
line. But then, by definition overreacting is, isn't it? It's not so good
that he pointed out they were hispanic. He was upset, and maybe not quite
thinking straight. Or as was pointed out, was thinking in terms of what he
told the police? (Where race helps narrow down the pool of candidates!)

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Eric Welch
Grants Pass, OR