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Re: Libertarian SPAM (Propaganda)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:15:31 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Duane Hess writes:
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> > > > > > That is not really the question (LUGNET does not attempt to represent the
> > > > > > views of society). The question is : Why is the LP so "white"?
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> > > <snipped reassertion of the same question>
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> > I'll ask it again:
> > Why does the LP only attract white males? Why is that? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
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> Why does LUGNET (in general) attract well educated white males?
It may be that that is the adult lego market?
> From my
> observations, Larry is right. LUGNET does not represent the statistical
> make-up of the countries in which it resides. Is this due to education?
> Economical status? Genetics? Lunar phase? Who knows?
Indeed. I think that starting point for looking at the background of the
users of Lugnet is to look at the users on the internet and of Lego. Looking
at Lugnet alone is useless in my opinion.
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> The LP is probably like LUGNET in that it attracts a certain kind of person,
> who just happens to be the higher educated white male. Is this
> discriminatory? No, because there doesn't seem to be a conspiracy to keep
> anyone out. It just means that a certain type of individual is attracted to
> the organization.
Lego aside, that was what my question to Larry is all about. Why does the LP
appear to be so male and so white? This is what I said here also:
http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?n=10887
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One could argue that you are using your memebership fee to invest in a
Libertarian future. Your fellow members may hope for a return on that
investment in the longer or shorter term. Why do only white males feel it is
worth investing in that future? Why? Is it because it will benifit them more?
Perheps non-white males feel excuded? Perhaps they are just not intersest in
a return to segragation?
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It could be argued that politics is still a male thing. But this is normally
less true at the grass roots - the LP is a grass roots party.
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> Just because I participate in a community where people who look, act and
> think like me reside, doesn't mean that it's a racist community.
or I!
> It just
> means that we tend to attract people who look, act and think like us.
> Sometimes the simple answer is the right one....
I think it is more complex than that. Before that conclusion can be drawn
the demographics of internet access and the adult Lego market must be
considered more fully... in my opinion.
Scott A
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> > Scott A
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> -Duane
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| (...) Why does LUGNET (in general) attract well educated white males? From my observations, Larry is right. LUGNET does not represent the statistical make-up of the countries in which it resides. Is this due to education? Economical status? (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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