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From: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics
Subject: Re: Ban the new testement with the Zundel law
Message-ID: <1010@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 00:14:45 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 15 00:14:45 1985
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Reply-To: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <582@utcs.UUCP> wjr@utcs.UUCP (William Rucklidge) writes:
>	Unfortunately, in Keegstra's case, the people he was exposing were
>not able to critically examine this information: as their teacher, he was
>presumably viewed as a source of knowledge and, as the testimony of some
>of the students seems to indicate, the beliefs he was spreading were accepted
>by the students. This was, of course, reinforced by the necessity that they
>do assignments about the Jewish conspiracy etc., and the fact that they
>received better marks for agreeing with him.

No doubt about it; it was totally correct for Keegstra to lose his job 
for pushing his biases/prejudices/philosophy on his students. Whether
he should go to jail for it is another question altogether.

                                         J.B. Robinson