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From: chabot@amber.DEC (Lisa S. Chabot)
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Subject: Re: disgusting!
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Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 16:37:13 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 13 16:37:13 1984
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"Majority stereotypes"
"Minority stereotypes"

Well, gee, as far as I know, this is the first letter in which I have used 
these terms.  So imagine my surprise this afternoon to find

Alan S. Driscoll  ==  !		 { letter entitled "Subject: Re: disgusting!" }

! While Lisa would never be caught spouting "minority stereotypes," she's
! quick to defend "majority stereotypes."  They're two entirely different
! things.  They must be, since Lisa uses different words to describe them.

I'm not sure, but I *think* that Alan's impression comes from a letter by
Steven Maurer entitled  "Subject: Re: comments on Maurer's comments on Chabot's
comments..." which quotes the following passage which I DID NOT write 
(and NEITHER did Steven Maurer):

???  ==  >
> ...  A major difference between
> stereotypes of minorities and stereotypes of "majorities".  Minority
> stereotypes involve lies and falsehoods told about people to spread
> hatred; some minorities actually adhered to the stereotypes, believing
> that 1) they were supposed to, and 2) that "majorities" would be more
> accepting of them if they behaved according to expectations.  Majority
> stereotypes involve behaviors that we have seen more than our share
> of examples of; while *some* minorities actually adhered to their
> stereotypes for the reasons I've described, the funny thing is that
> so many "majorities" do the same thing for the same reasons.

Of course, the ?fact? that I got somebody else to write this :-), which 
of course everyone *must* believe I espouse :-?, is just another example of my 
smooth-tongued snake-talk.  (In _The_Prince_, doesn't Machiavelli say that
the trick of good public relations is to get somebody else to do your dirty
work?)(Now, if I could only remember how I did it!  And then, how to get
it to do the dirty work I want done, not any more of this self-directed stuff).

! If you're going to accept some forms of bigotry, but reject others, you
! have to be careful to cover yourself.  Lisa Chabot is good at this.  The
! trick is to choose your words carefully.

Veerrrrryyyy carefully!  :-)

"Trussssssst in meeee, Jussssssst in meeee,..."
L S Chabot, Accused Ass-Coverer and Public Snake

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