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JO>->
JO>-> Example: anti-Catholic remarks.
JO>->
JO>The WORLD has been making anti-Catholic remarks.

The liberal world -- I run into no anti-Catholic conservatives.

We had a poster here, a self-admitted liberal, who posted some of the
most racist things we've seen here -- then tried to pretend he didn't
when called.

JO>But examples are no proof. As a buttress to the opinion that all
JO>liberals share these views, those acts, is to say the least, weak.

I said, "Scratch a liberal, find a bigot."  Examples are one way of
proving it.

JO>The conclusion to which you lept is based obviously to a predisposition.

No, the conclusion is based on many examples.

JO>-> Ted Turner insulted employees who were wearing ash marks on Ash
JO>-> Wednesday.
JO>->
JO>Employees should be proud of suffering a foolish insult.
JO>Probably centered around his disestablishment attitude.

Which in no way excuses Turner's bigotry.

JO>Are agnostics, atheists bigots ipso facto?

Do you have any experience to prove they are?

JO>-> When I met with the Editorial Board of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette,
JO>-> guess who objected to my comment that "disparity in education is the
JO>-> Civil Rights issue of the 21st Century?"
JO>->
JO>This 'liberal' see no problem with your statement.

Well, the liberal establishment in Arkansas is up in arms over it.

JO>I do think that the next twenty years will se a profound change in
JO>enucation' we are just beginning to use the internet...
JO>with instant access to EVERYTHING...

That is a bill I intend to introduce -- a national system of internet
delivered, computer-aided courses:

1.  Early childhood learning games, to replace ineffective and
non-interactive TV shows.

2.  High quality courses in all subjects, so kids in the smallest,
poorest, most remote schools will have access to the same quality and
variety as kids in largest and richest schools.

3.  Diagnostic and remedial programs for children who have fallen
behind.

4.  Fully-accredited graduate courses for teachers, so they can
continually upgrade their education and skills.

Structurally, we must move to Free Choice in education -- parents must
have the right to send their child to any school they choose, public,
private not-profit, or private for-profit, and the state must pay the
school 90% of the per-pupil share of the education budget.

Schools must stand or fall on their ability to attract students.

JO>I remember the scoffing at such when radio was introduced.
JO>...that the world would be universally educated...

It still isn't -- in Arkansas, we have 22% adult illiteracy.

JO>One more vision transformed into a dream...which I optimistical, still
JO>hold.

JO>-> Everywhere I go, I see a liberal disdain for the poor, for the
JO>-> undereducated, and for those with religious faith.
JO>->
JO>Hmmm. everywhere I go, I see liberal emphasis on the needs
JO>of the poor for the uneducated and for those who base
JO>political decisions on religious docrine...

No, you see cynical liberal manipulation of the poor.

For example, liberals bitterly contest Free Choice in education -- they
are willing to leave generations of poor children trapped in
substandard schools, to have their lives ruined.

Why?  Because the liberal education establishment has a financial
interest in maintaining the current system, despite its manifest
failures.

JO>>
JO>-> You don't see a difference between criticizing someone's actions, and
JO>-> discrimination against people for their race, religion, or
JO>-> socio-economic group?
JO>->
JO>-> You're making my point for me!
JO>->
JO>You are (awkwardly) jumping again.

What jump?  You made my point for me. :-)

JO>-> Exercise caution upon departure to avoid being impacted postieriorly by
JO>-> the protuberance on the portal.

JO>We shall make excellent strangers.

Indeed -- watch that doorknob.
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