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What Lott said may have been stupid, but punishing him for it diminished the freedom of every one of us, and increased the power of PC.

304 posted on 04/25/2003 4:22:38 PM PDT by aristeides

No. Majority Leaders shouldn't make stupid statements that can so easily be interpreted as racist....rightly or wrongly.

He hasn't lost any freedom whatsoever, nor have we. (Are you no longer able to say Strom Thurmond was right to be a segregationalist in 1948 if you want to?....Of course not. You haven't lost your freedom to say what you want to).

And Lott can go on saying the same thing if he wants to as well, but only with the risk of losing more power. Power, position and freedom are not the same things. You can lose the first two, but it doesn't mean you've lost the last.

305 posted on 04/25/2003 4:32:11 PM PDT by ohioWfan (President BUSH.....Leadership, Integrity, Morality)

What Lott said may have been stupid, but punishing him for it diminished the freedom of every one of us, and increased the power of PC.

BUMP

327 posted on 04/25/2003 6:01:14 PM PDT by TLBSHOW (The gift is to see the truth.....)

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