From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2001 - 21:18:19 MDT
At 05:48 PM 8/22/01 -0400, Mike Lorrey wrote:
>> "eugenics" ...
>> an extremely loaded term when used in public. It's loaded enough that it
>> would really be a good idea to find a better word.
>Only among people who have no sense of humor.
>>the real strike against the term is that the Nazis used
>> it to mean the selective killing of people the government didn't like. At
>> this point, there's no way to disassociate the term from that meaning.
Mike, I think this is *the* most *bizarre* and appalling contextualized
comment I've ever read from you on this list.
Damien Broderick
< not merrily whistling `Springtime for Hitler' >
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