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From: cmfaltz@phoenix.princeton.edu (Christine Marie Faltz)
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Subject: Re: scummy book victimizing disABLED
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Date: 24 Jun 91 19:45:54 GMT
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	I am glad you let us know about this book, and I think we should
do our best to let all know how we feel about it: write to local papers,
let anyone who mentions the book know how we feel about it, and so on.
Although I am annoyed with authors who think they are being creative or
funny or whatever else, I do not think we have the right to censor.  I
will not ask a bookstore, for example, not to carry the book.  If we
censor things, we cannot point to them and show the public what is wrong
with this society.  We can use the book's existence as a weapon against
itself and society's view of the disabled.  Censoring is wrong -- what
if agencies wishing to keep us in our place were able to prevent
positive, helpful publications outof the bookstore simply by letting
owners know that thebook, in their opiion, was unrealistic?  Condemn the
book, but don'thide it.  The ugly scars n our literature andother media
forms must be confronted head-on.

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| Poor is the person whose permission 	 | Christine Faltz 33 Prospect Ave. |
| depends upon the perceptions of others | Princeton, NJ 08540              | 

							"Who is John Galt?"