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- From: arodgers@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Angus H Rodgers)
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- Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.215349.19230@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:53:49 GMT
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- In <1992Dec21.193904.24017@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> ry@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (ryerson.schwark) writes:
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- >The assumption that we have to get people to agree with us to get
- >them to change their behavior is wrong. I've seen it here in the
- >workplace. People are told not to tell sexist jokes, and I know
- >several people who do not understand why and disagree, but because
- >they'll catch heat if they do, they don't.
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- Are you sure that the jokes aren't sometimes funny ones, and
- that people aren't being intimated even out of simple and
- inoffensive humour?
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- Their silence isn't proof of consent, you know. :-)
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