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- From: mara@panix.com (Mara Chibnik)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Dworkin (was Re: Liberty)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.110715.12041@panix.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 11:07:15 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.002532.28638@macc.wisc.edu> <1hrfotINNehf@mizar.usc.edu> <1992Dec30.105324.25237@macc.wisc.edu> <1992Dec30.193258.17967@spdcc.com>
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- anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
- >>Dworkin has no real power; Pat Robertson does.
- dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
- >Dwokin, in cahoots with Catherine MacKinnon, has had a much greater
- >effect in legal and civil rights circles than Robertson ever had.
- >In any case, if it weren't for this, I think she'd languish in
- >obscurity as a polemicist.
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- I don't agree about the power. MacKinnon and Dworkin are noticeable
- because the people most likely to pay attention to them are
- otherwise fairly liberal (by the standards of this society).
- Robertson fits right into a kind of mainstream power bloc to the
- tune that he's simply one among many, all with the same ideas.
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- So, who has more power? And does it matter?
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- Mara Chibnik
- mara@panix.com Life is too important to be taken seriously.
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