From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net   
   Subject: Re: Vulcan Racism Vs. IDIC?   
      
   "Graeme"  wrote in message    
   news:abd65989-e8d2-46df-bf1e-f0cbcefe07ae@a21g2000yqc.googlegroups.com:   
      
   > On Dec 27, 7:10apm, Ron  wrote:   
   > > One of things about the movie that really bothered me was all the   
   > > rascism the Vulcans showed-- Calling Sarek a traitor, calling Amanda a   
   > > whore, etc. For a logical, supposedly apassionless   
   > > people who believed in infinite diversity-- these Vulcans were sure a   
   > > narrow-minded lot.   
   >   
   > They always have been.  Even in TOS, they had very specific likes and   
   > dislikes.   
      
   Yep.   
      
   "Are our ceremonies for *outworlders* ?"   
         -- T'Pau, "Amok Time", TOS   
      
   Spock used to go out of his way to ridicule those "illogical humans"--a    
   way of showing us (and himself) that despite his half-human heritage, he    
   was all Vulcan all the way when it came to behavior.   
      
   ENT showed the Vulcans as looking down their noses at humans;    
   considering us immature children compared to them.   
      
   But those young Vulcans who called young Spock's dad a traitor and his    
   mom a whore, were just taunting him the way young kids taunt each other    
   even here on Earth.  They were trying to provoke him into an emotional    
   response, to prove that he's more human than Vulcan.  They succeeded.     
   :-)   
      
      
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