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Re: Over"Bear"ing
Your response to Bear was remarkably eloquent. I have one quibble.
On Thu, 30 Nov 1995, Derek Shaffer wrote:
> opportunity we could otherwise ill-afford. Tasteless: Your casual remark
> about the insensitivity of us "wealthy kids" here in Ithaca is no less an
> epithet than referring to the views of certain inner-city universities
> whose views you might likewise disagree with as merely displaying the
> narrowmindedness of a bunch of "poor kids".
There's a big difference between degrading and insulting the
group that's in power and degrading and insulting the powerless.
Meredith Garmon, Fisk U.
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