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- From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
- Subject: Re: con't:The Silent Holocaust
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- References: <Nov.20.16.43.25.1992.29037@andromeda.rutgers.edu><kf3dole00iUz82Mv0C@andrew.cmu.edu> <92326.153824U19807@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:00:55 GMT
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- <U19807@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
- >In article <kf3dole00iUz82Mv0C@andrew.cmu.edu>, Alison Rebecca Colman
- ><ac10+@andrew.cmu.edu> says:
- >
- >>In addition, please refrain from comparing abortion to the Holocaust. It
- >>is most highly offensive to some, including myself, and makes you look
- >>extremely ignorant and calloused; some would even go so far as to call
- >>you anti-Semitic.
- >
- >Hey,if you think that what Keira wrote is bad,you should see what some of the
- >more Neanderthal RTLers in Chicago have done. They convinced the CTA (our,uh,
- >alleged "rapid transit" service) to put up ads on buses and trains showing a
- >swastika (as well as some other Nazi-era symbol which I can't recall) next to
- >a pro-choice placard.
- The three items are a newspaper/handbill offering slaves for sale, the
- swastika and a "keep abortion legal" placcard. The legend says "Three
- times in history the word human being has been redefined"
-
- >The incredibly obvious (to the point of stupidity) con-
- >clusion that they wanted everyone to draw,of course,is that pro-choicers are
- >the moral equivalent of Nazis. Needless to say,the Jewish community wasn't
- >real pleased about this. I haven't seen any of these ads on the buses and
- >trains I've taken,so there's the chance that the CTA rescinded their decision.
- No. It is on the bus every morning when I get on at Union Station, Route
- 121. They have not rescinded it as far as I know. It *is* political
- speech, so they may not have much choice. Disgusting speech is still
- protected.
-
- -Steve
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