This was sent to me by someone who wishes to remain anonymous. It appeared
earlier this week in The New York Times and simply explodes your
fabrications.
Thanks for playing, better luck next time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/opinion/08kane.html?_r=2&th=&adxnnl=1&oref
=login&emc=th&adxnnlx=1162996280-vEt119ckJGgONtqLs5RxMA&oref=slogin
A quick excerpt: "A common misperception is that the ranks are increasingly
filled with relatively uneducated young men and women from low-income
households. Yet this myth doesn't hold up under inspection."
Denys
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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of James B. Byrne
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 11:47 AM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT:kerry
On Fri, November 10, 2006 12:11, John Lee wrote:
> Why did you join the Navy, James. Did you grow up in a poor
> underprivileged uneducated single-parent minority household with
> no hope for the future so you might as well go die for Canada?
> This,by the way, sounds like the force we're fighting.
>
> John Lee
>
That information is something that I choose to share with a very small
select group, of which no-one (other than myself) on this list is a
member. It is also quite beside the point and the question itself
demonstrates a willful desire to evade discussion of the issue at hand
which is: why are the economically disadvantaged disproportionately
over-represented in the combat forces of the world's military. The
evident reluctance by the most voracious proponents of violent conflict to
face that discrepancy is, in my opinion, quite revealing of the
intellectual poverty of their positions.
Words like disproportionate and over-representation explicitly concede
that not ALL members of the group under consideration are motivated by the
same factors, only that evidence exists that a statistically significant
factor is at work outside of those that are consciously or generally
acknowledged. The emotionally driven negative response to this quite
unremarkable observation simply betrays a keen desire not to face the
illusionary nature of ones personal beliefs and does nothing to change the
evidence or explain it.
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