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- From: galt%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Greg Alt)
- Subject: Re: To boycott is not to censor
- Date: 1 Jan 93 01:57:01 MST
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.015701.8835@hellgate.utah.edu>
- Followup-To: alt.censorship,alt.politics.misc
- Sender: galt@peruvian.utah.edu (Greg Alt)
- Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
- References: <1992Dec29.183523.1820@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec31.201703.1848@athena.mit.edu> <C062CM.7FF@ais.org>
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- In article <C062CM.7FF@ais.org> draper@ais.org (Patrick Draper) writes:
- >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?
-
- Gee, call me close-minded, but I've seen what Nazis have to say, and I
- would rather not waste my time skipping over flame wars that go like this:
-
- "The holocaust never happened" "yes it did" "no it didn't" "yes it did"...
-
- >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!
-
- Yeah, that's how to deal with it. Soc.motss is for homosexuals and bisexuals
- to talk with each other socially, so let's fill it up with flame wars that
- go like this:
-
- "Faggots will burn in hell" "go away you Nazi" "The anus is an OUTPUT device"
- "go away you Nazi" "Homos should be shot" "go away you Nazi"...
-
- >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.
-
- I'm subscribed to over 20 newsgroups. Without killfiles, I would spend my
- whole life reading news. If the thread isn't interesting, I quickly
- hit the K key.
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