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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!destroyer!ais.org!draper
- From: draper@ais.org (Patrick Draper)
- Subject: Re: To boycott is not to censor
- Message-ID: <C062CM.7FF@ais.org>
- Organization: UMCC
- References: <1992Dec29.183523.1820@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec31.201703.1848@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 08:31:32 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Dec31.201703.1848@athena.mit.edu> wdstarr@athena.mit.edu (William December Starr) writes:
- >
- >I'm sorry, but I disagree with both Yamanari and Dances With Drums
- >(the latter of whom, I _think_, is William A. Turner, but I'm not
- >sure). To boycott is not to censor. To encourage others to boycott
- >is not to censor. To censor is to use force or threat of force to
- >either prevent a person from speaking or to prevent a potential
- >audience member from hearing that person speak.<*> Boycotting does
- >neither -- asking people to ignore a given speaker does not inhibit
- >his ability to speak, and it does not inhibit the ability of those who
- >want to listen to him to do so.
- >
-
- If I could jump into the fray.....
-
- If we consider a definition of open mindedness as receiving ideas without
- moral judgement, or a belief that all viewpoints are valid, doesn't that
- sort of imply that the person who boycotts is closed minded?
-
- I think that a boycott is terribly negative and perhaps contradictory coming
- from a truly open minded person. Battle ideas with ideas, not deafness. The
- offensive one shouts loud? Then shout louder than them!
-
- One of the reasons that the usenet is so great is it's lack of censorship,
- as evidenced by our flame fests: a celebration of shouting louder than
- anyone else.
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