Xref: utzoo alt.flame:3189 news.misc:2046 Path: utzoo!hoptoad!cpsc6a!atl2!akgua!att!ulysses!gamma!sword!faline!bellcore!rutgers!njin!princeton!njsmu!mccc!pjh From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) Newsgroups: alt.flame,news.misc Subject: Re: The Good, the Bad, and the Stupid (LONG) Message-ID: <429@mccc.UUCP> Date: 24 Nov 88 02:54:09 GMT References: <1092@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) Organization: The College On The Other Side of U. S. Route 1 Lines: 52 In article clong@topaz.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) writes: = = =Let me make one thing clear: I respect the opinions of Nancy Gould and =company. Glad you said that; there was no respect shown in your posting. =If my posting has offended the parties involved, then I have =done what your postings have done to me. What! You are blaming THEM for your actions??? No one forced you to post; you *are* responsible. =If I have not seriously =addressed the issues involved, it is because there is nothing to =seriously address, Or maybe you just don't understand. Don't feel badly; lots of people don't understand how perpetuating the negative stereotypes of persecuted minorities can lead to further persecution. You may just have to live through it. =The censoring of any point of view, no matter how offensive you =find it, is *never* called for. Ever write a letter to the editor of a newspaper? Did it get published verbatim? Is that censorship or just editing for taste/space/whatever? =To do so would justify the =burning of Jewish literature during WWII (because the Nazi's found =it offensive), to do so would justify the censoring of certain =forms of literature in South Africa (because the white supremists =find it offensive). Now, now. Let's compare apples with apples. Surely you can't equate religious and intellectual works with jokes? You can?? How sad. =Chris Long =Mathematics Department =Rutgers University =New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Are you student or faculty, Chris? Just curious. Pete -- Pete Holsberg UUCP: {...!rutgers!}princeton!mccc!pjh Mercer College CompuServe: 70240,334 1200 Old Trenton Road GEnie: PJHOLSBERG Trenton, NJ 08690 Voice: 1-609-586-4800