Xref: utzoo alt.flame:3193 news.misc:2071 Path: utzoo!hoptoad!cpsc6a!atl2!akgua!att!occrsh!uokmax!russ From: russ@uokmax.UUCP (Random J Nightfall) Newsgroups: alt.flame,news.misc Subject: Re: The Good, the Bad, and the Stupid (LONG) Message-ID: <2065@uokmax.UUCP> Date: 24 Nov 88 22:59:48 GMT References: <1092@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <429@mccc.UUCP> Reply-To: russ@uokmax.UUCP (Random J Nightfall) Organization: Department of Redundancy Department Lines: 69 Summary: sigh [pjh@mccc.UUCP:] ->In article clong@topaz.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) writes: ->=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. -> Read it again, and this time take it slower. First part: has he offended the original article authors? Second: Good, cause they offended him. Simple, really. ->=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. -> He understands fine. So do the rest of us. Kindly stop explaining. The point is, noone made you read it. The ONLY POSSIBLE problem here (except what might be in your head) is the failure to ROT13 the given post. Brad apoligized. I'm satisfied (actually, I was never perturbed). I don't think you're going to have his intestines for dinner, though. ->=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? -> Usually space. Actually, the bias of newspapers is a whole new ball of worms that I'd not wish to see debated on rec.humor.anything. ->=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. -> Sure he can! Nothing sad about it. Humorous literature is every bit as valuable as any other kind. ->=Chris Long ->=Mathematics Department ->=Rutgers University ->=New Brunswick, NJ 08903 -> -> ->Are you student or faculty, Chris? Just curious. -> Don't tell me you're about to propagate a ... stereotype! ->Pete ->-- ->Pete Holsberg UUCP: {...!rutgers!}princeton!mccc!pjh Random J Nightfall Avatar of Chaos -- Russ 'Random' Smith Univ. of Oklahoma ^ ^ "Belt up, Longshot!" !texsun!uokmax!russ < + > CHAOTIC REVIEWS < + > --Beast, Rogue, & Dazzler Ultimatum Software v v _INFERNO_