Discounting Myths

Myth #2: Quote: "I remember when . . . the Nazis forced (Jews) to wear yellow stars as identity badges. So, what color star will they pin on gun owners' chests?---Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, January 1998." Quoted in "Have Gun, Will Travel: But can Heston's Celebrity and Rhetoric Revive the N.R.A.?" by Margot Hornblower. Time (July 6, 1998):44-46. Charlton Heston equates gun licensing legislation with the racial atrocities of the Holocaust. Flagrant rhetoric that offends by demeaning the racial element.

Myth #5: Quote: "But there are also teens like Aisha Grayton, 17, who sits on a bench at the St. Nicholas housing projects, six months pregnant after two miscarriages and an abortion. 'I got talked to, but I do what I want to do,'she says, calling out the number of girls she knows who are pregnant." "The

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t thought." Source: "Politically Correct Education" by Don Closson. Probe Ministries 1998. www.probe.org/docs/ pc educ.html. The quote celebrates freedom of speech over efforts to control racist terminology which may harm the minorites against whom it is directed on campus. Myth #15: Quote: "Why did 62% of white males vote Republican in 1994? It's because of things like this, where sometimes the best-qualified person does not get the job because he or she may be of one color." Bob Dole made this statement. Source: "A White Male Backlash Critics Attack Affirmative Action as Reverse Discrimination" by Carl Mollins. Maclean's (March 20, 1997): 22. This quote was chosen because Dole is saying that most minorities who benefit from affirmative action lack the skills to compete. Two of the myths of racism discussed here are 1) that non-whites simply lack the skills to succeed, and 2) that all that is needed is that we treat everybody equally. Both of these ideas have been suggested for some time as reasons why little has to be done about racial disparities in employment and achievement, the first holding that non-whites are simply unable to compete anyway, and the second holding that they can compete and so nothing more
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