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- From: ECL4JN2@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (Jack B. Nimble)
- Subject: Re: A Strand of Bigotry
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- Date: 21 Nov 92 01:37:04 PST
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- In article <1992Nov13.175017.12469@oracle.us.oracle.com>, on 13 Nov 1992 17:50:17 GMT,
- dgilly@us.oracle.com (Daniel Gilly) writes:
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- >[ Note: A reader of soc.motss, who does not have the
- >ability to post, has asked me to post this for him.
- >When following up, please change the attributions.]
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- Right! Edgar J Lawrence II asserts the following:
-
- >For far too long, people on this group having been taking
- >this Gary Strand character more seriously than he deserves.
- >He has repeatedly claimed that he has the right to practice
- >bigotry. He calls it "discrimination," but it should be
- >obvious to everyone that he is a particularly vicous bigot
- >who uses half-baked Libertarian rhetoric to rationalize his
- >bigotry.
- >
- You've totally mischaracterized what Gary Strand actually wrote, which
- is actually fairly typical of totalitarian tinkerbell thinking. What he
- claimed was that neither individuals nor the government have the right
- to forcibly prevent other people from discriminating. This no more makes
- one a bigot than does supporting the right of Nazis to march in Skokie
- make one a Nazi or does upholding the right of fundamentalist Christian
- churches to preach that homosexuality is a sin make one a fundy.
-
- This so-called "half-baked libertarian rhetoric" about the basic right
- to be left alone protects not only the bigot but gays as well from
- the oppressive and overbearing power of majoritarian government that
- would overreach its domain and extend itself into everyone's private
- life.
-
- =Jack=
- ---
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- Jack B. Newsbaum You have rights antecedent to all earthly
- Library Information Systems governments; rights that cannot be
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