Would you please sign your name so we know who we are talking to? ----- Original Message ----- From: <Breakness@aol.com> To: <NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 7:03 PM Subject: Re: [NYMADISO] Indian Relics > > In a message dated 4/25/2005 3:40:11 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, > berger@netstream.net writes: > > I think the other person's comment that "over 90% of academia has a > leftist agenda" is not only inaccurate but gratuitous and off the point. > The political stance of American Indian Movement organization (AIM), > whatever that might be, is also irrelevant to this discussion. Let's not > inject the acid right-wing political agenda here either on a matter on which > we should be able to find friendly common ground on as genealogists and/or > historians. Pam B. > > > > Pam, I take exception to this. You and I have never met. We do not know each > other. > > As Franklin observed "The sting of an argument is in it's truth". I guess > you feel stung, hmmm? It is telling that you characterize my comments as > "Acid right wing political agenda" Please!- guess who is name calling now?? > > Examining your polemic I wonder if you are in academia. Whether you are or > not, it's clear to see your political agenda. > > That the staff of higher education is left to hard left is a simple > statement of fact. I can find the sources but the political stance on nearly every > major university is left. That's not opinion, its fact, and the political lens > through which the staff teaches. > > Let's also remember that "Political Correctness" is a political term. It is > a political LEFT WING term, It is in fact Marxists. It needs to be fought and > defeated at every turn. PC is in every way the antithesis of our basic > freedom of speech and our way of life. > > As for AIM, my comments are entirely appropriate, though they may be > uncomfortable for some. We were after all talking about INDIAN artifacts, not > Egyptian, not Indonesian, not Japanese. > > The question originated around personal property and the identification and > potential evaluation of this property. While you may feel the museums have > some inherent right to art, artifacts held privately, they do not. It's called > "Personal Property" for a reason. > > > ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== > To post to this list - send email from the address you subsribed to the list with to this address - NYMadiso-L@rootsweb.com > > >