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Giuliani Jeering Section

5.15.07 @ 12:01AM

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If the environmentalist would allow more refineries to be built it would be a good first step in lowering prices. At least there would be backups when another hurricane hits. The "protectors" of our land do not want drilling anywhere in America, but don't want us to import oil. Just get government out of it and let market prices work.
-- Elaine Kyle

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Re: Robert VerBruggen's letter (under "The Test Results Are In") in Reader Mail's Snap Judgments:

Robert VerBruggen's test results are meaningless simply because the association of "white" with "good" and "black" with "bad" is a cross-cultural universal constant, found in Asia, India and even in Africa itself. It therefore has nothing to do with incipient racism, but more likely is a vestige of man's primordial fear of the night. Man being a diurnal creature, and most of his natural predators being nocturnal, one can easily understand how man would fear the darkness and come to correlate the black of night with evil, while the coming of the light would be greeted with joy and be associated with goodness. Excessively civilized people such as Mr. VerBruggen, who have not had the benefit of huddling around a small fire while the wolves, jackals, leopards and lions prowled just outside the small circle of light, seek to transpose their own intellectual theories and concerns onto a primitive response acculturated over the course of a million years. It might also help if VerBruggen and his lot bothered to investigate cultures other than their own, and did so with the same hermeneutic of suspicion they use in sniffing out white racism.
-- Stuart Koehl
Falls Church, Virginia

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