Message-ID: <1.5.4b12.32.19960328164153.00b50334@maine.maine.edu> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:41:53 -0500 From: "Scott P. Overmyer" <mailto:overmyer@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Subject: Re: anti-racist, anti-sexist Internet resources for multicultura To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
At 08:33 AM 3/28/96 EST, you wrote: >Kristin Brown, Jim Cummins and I are writing for your help in compiling an
>annotated list of Internet resources for anti-racist, anti-sexist
>multicultural education.
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>your suggestions to <mailto:dmsayers@ucdavis.edu> and be sure to tell us in which
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much excellent commentary deleted
> I wish people used this paradigm, instead of conflict, though.
I agree. This "anti-" approach is mostly inflammatory and very "brute-force". It seems to me that over the years, people will realize the fallacy and futility of racism and sexism, and the pure intellectual pleasure derived from learning about other cultures and peoples. The "anti-" (and legislative) approach just alienates those who proponents most need to reach. Kind-of pisses people off; especially when behavior is legislated upon people who are already observant ... I know it does me.
scotto...