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If you attended the conferences I attend, you would be even more worried. Not every one SOUNDS like this, but almost all of them MEAN what this guy posted. For instance, this is a post from FSU--and I know many FREEPERS are in Florida. Date: Fri 20 Jan 16:37:17 EST 2006 From: Peggy Wright-Cleveland I, too, was amazed and concerned over the racism in King Kong. ?The portrayal of the primitive peoples was beyond appalling and eventually nonsensical. It seems a dire indictment of America that we have made this same movie three times; seventy years worth of "not getting it." My more generous take on the movie is that it is an indictment against capitalism. This new version spends upwards of 60 minutes developing the ego and capital that drove the director to take such a risk. Still, I refuse to believe that the only solution for Africans/Natives/Kongs/anything-other-than-white-men in America is destruction. I thought the sexual connection between Kong and the girl was downplayed in this movie. Does anyone agree? And, I think the female is portrayed as stronger. Still, she can defeat/charm a giant gorilla but can't prevent regular men from kidnapping him? Oh, come on... Peggy Wright-Cleveland FSU

I can only imagine, but I am not in the least surprised.

The indoctrination of kids with political correctness, diversity training and multiculturalism takes place and continues onward from the same age many of my generation learned about the Golden Rule. And from what I can tell, it is intense, institutionalized and mandatory.

That any of these kids come through with the ability to think for themselves is a testament to the many good parents out there, but even the best kids can get sucked into this stuff.

I went to college when I got out of the Navy at the age of 21, and was pretty well-traveled and independent-thinking (or so I thought)

I remember taking Sociology, and reading "Walden II" for the course. That book describes a socialist utopia, as does sociology as a "science" for getting there. I was SOOOOO impressed. I thought it was a shame our entire country, nay, the world was not modeled after Walden II.

It is an embarrassing memory for me. I look back now, and see how attractive that concept is to someone who just doesn't understand exactly what it is, and why it has proved to be a terminally flawed concept again, and again, and again (as described in "The Road to Serfdom" by FA Hayek)

Someone always thinks that it fails because "it wasn't done correctly" or that "the next time we won't make the same mistakes" instead of realizing that it is a flawed concept from the start, like a perpetual motion machine. No matter how much you tinker with it, it is doomed to failure.