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- From: ry@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (ryerson.schwark)
- Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
- Organization: UNIX System Laboratories, Summit, NJ
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:42:30 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.164230.17150@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- References: <BzInI2.7Bn@unix.amherst.edu> <1992Dec19.212201.5955@tc.cornell.edu> <BzM8Fq.97F@austin.ibm.com>
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- In article <BzM8Fq.97F@austin.ibm.com> alan@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (Alan R. Weiss) writes:
- >
- >Do you believe that applying sound marketing principles to
- >getting your ideas actually ADOPTED by lots of people is a
- >nitwit idea? If so, then you must enjoy talking *INSIDE*
- >your safe-space.
-
- Do you have any idea what marketing is? It is polite, it is
- rude, it is nice, it is mean, it is communication, it is
- miscommunication, it is above all getting people to pay attention.
-
- There is nothing fundamental about sugar coating anything, ideas
- included, that 'sells' it better. There's nothing nice about hate
- and bigotry and they're very well marketed, so lay off the bullshit
- that if feminists would just dress up their ideas in pretty clothes
- they would sell because:
-
- 1) its not necessarily true
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- 2) it assumes that ONLY by being nicey-nicey it would sell
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- 3) it assumes that its the feminists' job to do this in the
- first place. (hell, I spend some of my time educating ignorant
- strayt people, but it isn't MY job, its theirs)
-
- Ry
- ry@usl.com
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