[Vision2020] Intolerance

thansen@moscow.com thansen@moscow.com
Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:47:14 GMT


Greetings Visionaires -

I am willing to listen to (and consider) "both sides of the coin", Mr. 
Westberg.  However, like the Montgomery Bus Boycot, if I disagree with somebody 
I will spend my money elsewhere.

Tom Hansen

> With due respect to those talking about boycotting businesses owned by 
> people of opposing worldviews, I offer this as an opinion from an admitted 
> Leftist.  I quote from Yale College dean Richard Brodhead, in an address to 
> incoming freshmen recently.  This quote, incidentally, comes from a New York 
> Times editorial by Thomas Friedman in yesterday's edition.  "Above all, 
> don't limit your associations to people who agree with you...Who do we 
> suppose will be able to deal more constructively with the challenges of our 
> time: people who have only ever experienced preaching to the converted, or 
> people who tested their understanding against the countervailing 
> understandings of others?"                                                   
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> Carl Westberg Jr.
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