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To: Helms
In Fromm’s view, masculinity and femininity were not reflections of ‘essential’ sexual differences, as the Romantics had thought. They were derived instead from differences in life functions, which were in part socially determined." Sex is a construct; sexual differences are a construct.

Why is it that to Marxists everything is a social construct except the central Marxist thesis that "oppression" and "exploitation" are wrong?

In conclusion, America today is in the throws of the greatest and direst transformation in its history. We are becoming an ideological state, a country with an official state ideology enforced by the power of the state. In "hate crimes" we now have people serving jail sentences for political thoughts. And the Congress is now moving to expand that category ever further. Affirmative action is part of it. The terror against anyone who dissents from Political Correctness on campus is part of it. It’s exactly what we have seen happen in Russia, in Germany, in Italy, in China, and now it’s coming here. And we don’t recognize it because we call it Political Correctness and laugh it off. My message today is that it’s not funny, it’s here, it’s growing and it will eventually destroy, as it seeks to destroy, everything that we have ever defined as our freedom and our culture.

An important point, however, is that American politcally correct totalitarianism includes a necessity for guilt and self-hatred. This is something that the totalitarianism of Third World countries do not know (instead, they espouse a form of totalitarianism patriotism and national pride).

11 posted on 12/26/2004 10:05:07 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Okay, Chanukkah's over, y'all. Chr*stmas and "kwanzaa" have to go it alone now!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
American politcally correct totalitarianism includes a necessity for guilt and self-hatred.

Have you actually SEEN any other these people? They SHOULD hate themselves, they're so ugly. Even if they're not naturally ugly, they do everything to enhance ugliness. Bad clothes. Slouched posture. Ugly boots. No makeup. Hairy armpits. etc

43 posted on 12/26/2004 11:09:36 AM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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