Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: John Higdon Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Censure Roseanne Barr by Fax Message-ID: <10607@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 8 Aug 90 22:38:21 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 43 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 551, Message 11 of 13 "Donald E. Kimberlin" <0004133373@mcimail.com> writes: > Regrettably, the replies have instead been from people who > indicate by their very comment that they would NOT aid the spread of > debate. In doing so, these individuals indicate themselves to be > guilty of their own form of the same narrowmindedness they so loudly > protest in this forum, some of them daily. > To straighten out some of the trivialities that have now ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > been published and correct some of the outright errors: As one of those who did respond "off the air" and as one to whom you are undoubtedly referring, let me reiterate my position. The key word is "trivial". Who on earth really cares if Roseanne Barr exhibited bad taste at a Padres game? What difference does it make in any of our daily lives? Who of us will suffer or profit as a result? Such an incident can hardly be compared to the Craig Neidorf case, or the Chinese massacre, or even the arrest of musicians performing allegedly obscene material. If you're going to test the waters of Americans rising to anything, at least pick something substantial for a seed. Hopefully Americans aren't so stupid that they will, in mass numbers, clog communications networks over something as supremely silly as the Roseanne Barr non-event. If I'm missing the grand significance to mankind here, I invite your persuasions via e-mail. (Somehow, I put whether my cat pees in the flower bed a couple of notches above this "issue".) John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o ! [Moderator's Note: However, John, 'trivial' is a relative term, and depends on who is using it. To *us*, Craig N's case was important; yet how much or little of it have you seen mentioned in the papers? Roseanne Barr is a household name to millions of people. Very few folks outside our circle have ever heard of Craig. PT]