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- From: nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle)
- Subject: Re: Kicked out of a.f.d-q? I don't think so
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:16:39 GMT
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- sgast+@pitt.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
- >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.
-
- Perhaps. I disagree with Steve Chaney on just about every subject
- you could name but so far I have received no death threats. As far as what
- causes Steve to get flamed, I assure you that every time I have flamed
- him it has been for his opinions. I don't deny that there might be other
- reasons for roasting him, but his opinions have been more than enough for
- me.
-
- >It's much easier to blame ostracism on some idiotic notion of
- >"appropriate opinions" than to find out the facts, of course.
-
- It was not my purpose to pass judgment on the reasons Steve and Jack
- are ostracised. Suffice it to say that they *are* ostracised (as evidenced
- by the way people have gone ballistic over the mere mention of their names
- without the usual curses and epithets).
-
- >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.
-
- I disagree. In my opinion it is far more difficult to refrain from
- judging people than it is to damn them good and proper. I don't have much
- use for either of them, but there are far more heinous people in this
- world. I believe that there is room in the world for both the Chaneys
- and the Garvins.
-
- >Whining about "politically correct" censorship is rapidly replacing
- >cries of "Nazi" as the last resort of the Usenet loser.
-
- Perhaps, but if censorship has not occurred in this case (at least
- on an informal level), then where are Steve and Jack? I have a feeling
- that people wouldn't whine about it so much if it wasn't happening
- somewhere.
-
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- Nathan Engle Software Juggler
- Psychology Department Indiana University
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