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    Exclusionary Themes —Richard Franks
    Can we go back to being a happy little stress-free group? The American rivalry started off cutely, but in reality it is a very real form of prejudice, and therefore not very cute at all. The problem being that with any form of group mentality more (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
   
        Re: Exclusionary Themes —Tony Priestman
   On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Richard Franks (<FM7F7H.28y@lugnet.com>) wrote at 06:54:53 (...) *Everybody* is prejudiced about something. The trick is to know you are. But I agree. There's been a bit too much negativity washing about here recently. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
   
        Re: Exclusionary Themes —Richard Franks
     (...) Yeah, I do have a disturbing self-righteous streak sometimes ;) If it hadn't been so late I might have phrased it differently - sorry if the way I said it got up anyones nose! Richard (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
    
         Re: Exclusionary Themes —Simon Robinson
     (...) No - what you said needed to be said by someone. lugnet is a public newsgroup and I can't see any reason for excluding certain people from it other than if people are posting inappropriate posts. As far as I'm concerned anyone is welcome to (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
   
        Re: Exclusionary Themes —Simon Denscombe
   (...) What is wrong with prejudice? :-D It's discrimination which is far worse. (...) I know and I hate it. (...) Hopefully not, as long as they don't keep creating pointless morality debates here - putting them in the proper newsgroups. I know a UK (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
 

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