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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Planned Parenthood posting
Message-ID: <786@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Sep-85 03:26:22 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  8 03:26:22 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Sep-85 06:56:52 EDT
Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
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In article <11411@rochester.UUCP> ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank) writes:
>>  Also, I am tired of hearing you blame "acid | punk | whatever" rock for
>> whatever it is you don't like.  I can't stand the music either, but the
>> only teen-age problem it is primarily responsible for is DEAFNESS.
>> -- 
>> Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan
>
>HUH!  What makes you an authority on the effects of decadent music on youths.

What made YOU an authority?

>Please give examples of how it is not adversely affecting our youth.

It's entertaining. It gives kids something to talk about. It's fun to dance
to. Maybe you're talking about "backward masking?" I finally got a chance to
ask the world's leading linguist, Noam Chomsky, if "backward masking" actually
worked. He just laughed. 

In the late 50's, a lot of Klan-types tried to assert that rock music was a
Negro plot to destroy the good White kids. Maybe you still believe that.

>It is as though you were saying we don't need ratings on movies because
>movies don't affect anyone, except in the cases of failing vision.

Ratings are seldom enforced except in the case of "X" and "XXX".

The suggestion of a "Music Ratings" system has been laughed out of the FCC
a dozen times by now.

Get a clue, Ray.

-- 
Charles Forsythe
CSDF@MIT-VAX
"We pray to Fred for the Hopelessly Normal
	Have they not suffered enough?"

from _The_Nth_Psalm_ in _The_Book_of_Fred_