From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Burning at the Stake
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:43:04 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 7:57 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Burning at the Stake

> Unless, of course, those children stumble onto the Shaver Mystery or
> disagree with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People
> or don't find _M*A*S*H_ entertaining... in which case they're obviously
> inferior and unworthy beings who must be denounced vehemently on chat
lists
> and suffer other forms of social disapproval.

Huh?   This doesn't seem to be a response to my statement that "Every child
should rebell against such parents by reading as widely and voraciously as
he or she can."   Unless of course you think that kids *believe* everything
they read.   But the more widely and voraciously any kid reads, the better
worldview he or she will have, and the less nonsense he or she will
believe.   Reading widely means reading opposing points of view.   Kids are
neither naive or stupid when they are widely read; they have the ability to
sort wheat from chaff.    I have no idea how the NAACP or "M*A*S*H" figure
into this -- unless you're referring to the *books* published by the author
of the original M*A*S*H novel (of which there were at least a half dozen).

--Ted White