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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon A. Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: In Defense of Milo
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Date: Mon, 19-Nov-84 16:02:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 19 16:02:00 1984
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Tom Hill writes:

> Recently I have noticed that most of you guys out there flaming at
> Milo are flaming at him simply because YOU DON'T LIKE HIM.  Milo
> writes an article and presents the facts as he sees them, lists his
> sources and asks for a response that has also been reasonably thought
> out.  He has yet to get such a response!  Your replies can be summed
> up like this...  "don't bother me with facts when I am trying to win
> this argument on emotional appeal."  Face it guys, you simply do not
> like his opinion.  This on going discussion will go on for quite some
> time and I do not think that either side will change their opinions
> much.

Tom is right.  I have seen this happening quite a bit, along with another
interesting tactic: if you leap to the defense of people like Milo
you are labeled with the same nasty labels they would apply to him
EVEN IF YOU HAVEN'T EXPRESSED AGREEMENT but merely defended his
right to speak here and be answered reasonably.

Just watch ....
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