Re: dogma protests

Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Fri, 03 Dec 1999 13:27:57 +0000 

    When people shouted: 'Black is beautiful!' 
    I felt something of the same solidarity that I feel 
    for my own compatriots when they shout: 
    'The English! The English!  The English are best.  
    I would't give tuppence for all of the rest ...'

    But it does seem to me that touchiness about 
    one's own race is a lamentable admission of insecurity 
    in the same way that protectiveness on behalf of 
    another's reflects a rather nasty condescension.  
    Are blacks - or women, or homosexuals, or Scotsmen - 
    so delicate that they must be minded like children?

    There's a great deal of self-righteous preachiness 
    being thrown around in regard to the 'dogma protest' 
    thread.  I'm afraid it gives off the unmistakable odour 
    of self satisfaction - & I suspect will look as ridiculous 
    in a hundred years as the confident moralising of 
    our Victorian, piano-leg-swathing grandfathers.

    Scottie B.
Scottie B.