Klarinet Archive - Posting 000235.txt from 1998/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Is Vienna Right?
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:18:39 -0500

At 09:35 PM 1/4/98 -0600, Ed Lacy wrote:
>On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Bill Hausmann wrote:
>
>> They are bigots who THINK of themselves as conservators. The Ku Klux
>> Klan view themselves the same way.
>
>A most unfortunate analogy, and in my view, a rather unjustified one.
>Certainly, the Ku Klux Klan must rank among the most despicable
>organizations in history. I have not heard of any women being murdered,
>lynched, tortured, or otherwise illegally abused under the sanction of the
>members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
>
I was not referring to their methods, only their often-stated concern for
the preservation of "white" culture. That makes the comparison reasonable.

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