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Re: Pick 50 - adaptation answers
On Wed, 25 Oct 1995, Alan Dove wrote:
> Sue,
>
> Sorry you took such serious offense to my complaint. I don't recall
> directing it at you personally, and your interpretation of it seems to be
> much nastier than my copy of it in my "sent-mail" file. For others who
> read it this way, I can only say that I'm sorry you misunderstand my
> position. I sent out a clarification in a separate post.
>
> --Alan
Alan: sorry if i got a bit carried away with my response. it just makes
me angry because there are a lot of quality teams out there who spend an
emmense amount of time on this activity to insure they have a lot of
quality evidence and quality argumentation skills, and it seems as if we
still end up getting lumped in with other, less diligent teams!
it just seems as if you were implying that anyone who reads one
of the "meatball" positions as you call them should be thought of as
"less intelligent" then others. i used cultural imperialism in a round
earlier this season, and i think i applied it very well to a case that
claimed the US would be better capable of educating the indigenous
cultures in mexico than their own people through their culture. i think
the argument made sense, and i don't think it was meatball.
so i apologize if i overreacted...but i put a LOT of hours in to
this activity, and i know a lot of others who do the same, in order to
produce evidence and argumentation that is quality. i just took offense
at the generalization you made. it was a long and arduous weekend in
SDSU this weekend, so it could be i'm a bit oversensitive. and perhaps i
was the only one who found your arguments to be insulting. but, the
feeling was genuine...so perhaps we should try to generalize less in the
future... i don't know.
sue lowrie
chico state
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