Re: the unacceptable face of capitalism?

blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Wed, 24 Mar 1999 16:56:44 -0500 (EST) 

Laughing while I read your post, I still wonder if I should be pleased or
disturbed. :)

I've been the same old me the whole time, Scottie.  Really.  And you can
see now why I don't really fit in anywhere quite too well :)  But if you
want to know the truth, the members of the church I attend are all
rabidly anti-racist, rabidly loving, rabidly pro-Israel, as well as
rabidly conservative and capitalist.  There's an old couple in my church
that pastored one of the first mixed race churches in their neck of the
South in the 1940s/50s and paid the price for it, but at the same time
are pretty darn conservative fiscally and morally.

It's only the left that associates conservatism with racism and bigotry. 
But they do influence the arts, the media, and the educational elite, so
that's a widespread assumption.  Don't blame you for having it.

I'm thinking right now of a scene from ... oh, what was it?  A movie with
 Depardieu (I know that's spelled wrong) and Geena Davis, I think. 
"Green Card"?  She marries him so he can live in the States and they fall
in love?

Anyways, she's going through her photo album with him and he says to her,
"What is this, right and left?  You're the one who got all your ideas
from one place"  

She then shows him a photo of her college.

Eeenteresting.

Jim

On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 07:54:59 +0000 Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie>
writes:
>    
>    I, for one, am thrilled by the transformation that seems 
>    to have overtaken blah b b blah in recent days.  No longer 
>    Mr Nice Guy, huh, Jim?
>
>    The image of a Sunday school teacher, all patience & tolerance, 
>    is suddenly replaced with the infinitely more alarming 
>    (& wonderfully exhilarating) sight of Al Pacino sliding 
>    his heater out of the shoulder holster.
>
>    Whatever the reason, let me, at least, extend a hearty welcome 
>    to this refreshing new version.  It may well help save the list 
>    from the foam of bien pensant kindliness that recurrently 
>    threatens to smother us all.
>
>    Scottie B.
>
>

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