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From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: EFF Chapters
Message-ID: <4012.27f1e163@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: 28 Mar 91 17:28:19 GMT
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In article <1396@gargoyle.uchicago.edu>, learn@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (William  Vajk ) writes:
> In article <7846@hsv3.UUCP> mvp@hsv3.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
> 
>>Yes, but there are people interested in promoting the aims of EFF who
>>aren't interested in promoting the entire spectrum of trendy causes 
>>which the Politically Correct define as "Social Responsibility."
> 
> It is of great interest to me to hear how "the Politically Correct"
> might define "Social Responsibility" any differently then Mike Van Pelt
> does.
> 
> Beyond that, I am also interested in hearing what the "trendy causes"
> might include which, by implication in the included text, have little to 
> no permanent significance to our societal framework.
> 
> It seems that everyone who has thought about the issues we discuss here
> determines which axe, if any, they wish to grind. In my experience, such
> axes are merely a focal point of an individual's interest, and don't seem
> to denote exclusivity of interest at the expense of other, though perhaps
> somewhat lesser, emotional attachment to causes celebre.

On about half of what I have seen announced as agenda of CPSR over the years
I find myself concerned about the issue and on the opposite side of the
debate from CPSR.  Other groups that assume the label "Social Responsibility"
are wrong a higher proportion of the time.  The label "Politically Correct"
seems to reliably tie to the areas of difference.

Of course, I'm speaking for me, not for Mike Van Pelt.

dan herrick
herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com