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Re: Exclusionary Themes
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Sat, 4 Dec 1999 16:45:02 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.uk, Tony Priestman writes:

The problem being that with any form of group mentality more and more people
start taking it seriously, which has an interesting feedback effect. See
Dawkins for a more in-depth discussion of memes and why prejudicial ideas in
particular flourish.

Careful, Richard. You're beginning to sound a bit priggish.

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



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  Re: Exclusionary Themes
 
(...) 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)

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  Re: Exclusionary Themes
 
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)

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