Xref: utzoo alt.flame:3184 news.misc:2041 soc.culture.jewish:8290 rec.humor.d:1168 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!eplrx7!udel!gatech!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu!nmg From: nmg@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Nancy M Gould) Newsgroups: alt.flame,news.misc,soc.culture.jewish,rec.humor.d Subject: Re: The Good, the Bad, and the Stupid (LONG) Message-ID: <1095@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> Date: 23 Nov 88 20:02:52 GMT References: <1092@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: nmg@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Nancy M Gould) Followup-To: alt.flame Organization: Mathematical Sciences Computer Lab, Columbus, OH Lines: 87 In article mccarrol@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark C. Carroll ) writes: >} > >Nancy, I hate to say this, because I've really liked a lot of what >you've had to say on other subjects, but: I think Chris is justified >in that posting. > Have you people heard of freedom of >speach? If you had read my postings more carefully to begin with, you would know that I was not calling for censorship so much as for an honest acknowledgement of the consequences of telling ethnic jokes. Sean Engleson wrote a long, eloquent article on the subject, which expressed my exact views. Didn't you read it. > You have NO right to decide what CAN and CANNOT be posted to >ANY group on usenet. Of course, I have no legal right to decide what can and cannot be posted. But I do have the right to my personal opinion of what SHOULD and SHOULD NOT be posted. Please respect it. > I find it particularly disgusting seeing jews >in favor of censorship. Why just Jews? >You have NO right to try to silence it! Who the hell do you >think you are? > Again, I do have the right to express my opinion on the subject. You have NO right to try to silence that. >} > >When you act stupid, sometimes it's appropriate to point it out >to you. Fine. But if you wish to give me constructive criticism about my personal characteristics, all standards of politeness and netiquette indicate that the appropriate place to do this would be by e-mail > >}Please, people, let's act grown up!!! > >Yes, let's. Let us open our minds, and try to not be so sensitive. >Let us try to understand that we can't try to destroy anyone who dares >to post something we don't like. Excuse me, but have I tried to destroy any one? All I've done is post my honest opinions publicly to the net! You want freedom of speech? Fine! But, remember, it works both ways. -- "When the writer becomes the center of his attention, he becomes a nudnik. And a nudnik who believes he's profound is even worse than just a plain nudnik." --Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904- ) Nancy M. Gould