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- From: sgast+@pitt.edu (Susan Garvin)
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- Subject: Re: Kicked out of a.f.d-q? I don't think so
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 19:22:56 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.072428.9152@cs.com> <1h4mbcINN1ov@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <nate.960@psygate.psych.indiana.edu>
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- In article <nate.960@psygate.psych.indiana.edu> nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle) writes:
- # This is admittedly the first time I've ever heard anyone make that
- #claim as well, but I've seen a couple of cases in which hordes of people
- #have posted "requests" for other dissenting persons to butt out and leave
- #a group until they have "learned" more appropriate opinions. Consider the
- #case of Steve Chaney or Jack Schmidling. Basically these two guys have
- #gotten unpopular enough that they can no longer hold fruitful discussions
- #here because people are so busy berating them for past transgressions or
- #trying to put words in their mouthes in order to create new offenses. Both
- #of these individuals have been effectively "kicked out".
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- Chaney isn't flamed for his opinions - he's flamed because he sends
- death threats via e-mail to anyone who disagrees with him and because
- he forges articles and lies about news reports. It's much
- easier to blame ostracism on some idiotic notion of "appropriate
- opinions" than to find out the facts, of course. It's also easier
- to pretend that Chaney or Scmidling were ever capable of holding
- fruitful discussions with anyone than to admit that they're anti-
- Semitic hatemongers with deplorable verbal skills.
-
- Whining about "politically correct" censorship is rapidly replacing
- cries of "Nazi" as the last resort of the Usenet loser.
-
- Susan
-