Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucla-cs!smcnet!byoder From: byoder@smcnet.UUCP (Brian Yoder) Newsgroups: alt.individualism Subject: Re: Why bash communism? Summary: That's not the point. Message-ID: <531@smcnet.UUCP> Date: 20 Jan 90 02:20:25 GMT References: <89348.161937BROWN@NCSUVM.BITNET> <1372@becker.UUCP> Organization: Santa Monica College Telecom, Santa Monica, CA. Lines: 29 In article , nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes: > In article <525@smcnet.UUCP> byoder@smcnet.UUCP (Brian Yoder) writes: > > I have a hard time thinking of a pro-businessman movie in more > modern times either. > > You are perfectly free to make your own pro-businessman movies. If no > one chooses to watch them, well, that's just the free market at work. That is quite true, but also quite beside the point. The source of this whole discussion was that in the 1950's someone stood up and said loudly (and perhaps obnoxiously) "Hollywood is full of communists and they are creating movies biased against American values. This is a bad trend that you should be aware of." (This was sometimes followed (wrongly) by requests for the government to take action to revise the situation). That statement appears to be true (but heck, I wasn't even born at the time, so it's hard to know for sure), and there's nothing wrong with saying it. The only wrong action would be in asking GOVERNMENT to act to oppress the commies because of it. Urging citizens to boycott anti-business movies or other such things is perfectly fine with me. Would anyone disagree with this? Brian Yoder -- -<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>- | Brian Yoder | answers *byoder(); | | uunet!ucla-cs!smcnet!byoder | He takes no arguments and returns the answers | -<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-