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SUBJECT: OMNI ABDUCTEE OPPRESSION FILE: UFO3044
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Reprinted from Omni Magazine: July 1993
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ABDUCTEE OPPRESSION
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Harvard psychiatrist John Mack says UFO abductees should avoid debunkers like
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the plague. "It's fine to study abductees and present a skeptical point of
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view," Mack says. But those who criticize abductees can be vicious about it,
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Mack believes -- so much so that their verbal attacks amount to abuse.
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In fact, Mack contends, UFO abductees are a legitimate minority group whose
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rights are violated at every turn. Mack is so incensed over the treatment his
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abductee/patients have received that he suggests they no longer come in contact
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with debunkers at all.
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Putting debunkers on TV shows with abductees, according to Mack, "is like
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interviewing Holocaust survivors along with skeptics who say the Holocaust
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never occurred."
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Still, political scientist and minority-rights expert Opuku Agyeman of
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Montclair State College in New Jersey hesitates to put abductees in the same
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class as a legitimate minority. He says that just making people feel
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uncomfortable for holding a particular view does not violate their rights; it's
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an example of free speech.
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Abductees would be considered a bona fide minority, he states, only if their
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views were called deplorable and unacceptable and if they were punished as a
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result.
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Omni Mag. --- Paul McCarthy
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