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From: Jeff.Salzberg@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Jeff Salzberg)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Answer to Mazrui Letter continued
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Date: 4 Feb 91 17:23:45 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

I'm not the moderator of this echo, so the following comments have no
official standing; they are merely one person's opinion.

I guess that most of you know that I am not exactly a big fan of the
NFB, for reasons I have enumerated elsewhere.  With this said, I have to
express my concern over certain comments that have been made about the
organization, its members, and its agencies.

Folks, there is nothing positive to be gained by using inflamatory terms
such as "trash" or by employing gratuitous obscenities.  The members of
the NFB (at least the ones I've seen here) are not evil people; they
honestly believe that they are right (just as I honestly believe that I
am right).  We have everything to gain (and nothing to lose) by engaging
in dialogue (pun intended) with people of opposing philosophies;
inflammatory terms just get in the way of this.

... I was gonna change my tag line, but why bother?

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