Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
References: <Bxvt2s.2Cv@cs.psu.edu>
Distribution: USA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:53:50 GMT
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In article <Bxvt2s.2Cv@cs.psu.edu> myers@redviolet.crayola.cs.psu.edu (Joseph F Myers) writes:
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>what Rush Limbaugh is, is a Sexist, who among other things is for the abolition of free speech. Hear me out!
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>Example a.
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>Sinead O Conner performed a song on NBC's Saturday Night Live called War.
>Sinead O Connors performance was a personal artisic expression and therefore should be respected as such;WEHTHER YOU AGREE WITH IT OR NOT.
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> Moving on....
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>Rush limbaugh decided this topic was sufficently important to take up most of one of his half hour television programs. During the program he expressed disagreement with Sinead O Connors Ideas and actions;THIS IS PERFECTLY OK! but he didn't stop there, he continued to make fun of her actions by ripping up a picture of her, and continued to mock her performance throughout the show. He need not agree with her, but this country is founded on acceptance as well as TOLERANCE,and he chooses to undermine th
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>perhaps an even greater act of intolerance and sexisim was perpetrated by Rush Limbaugh on this same show.
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>allow me to explain...
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>It was not enough to make clear that Sinead O Connor ws not "acceptable", but He beleived that somehow his argument would be STRONGER if he could tear her down personally.
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>Sinead O Connor has a very unique look as U.S. standards go, b
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>OMEN, by drawing hair on her and in his words "make her into a woman". If this is the standard that rush uses to judge femininity, and insults someone who does not 'pass the test', then a voice like Rush Limbaugh can do a lot to destroy the progress women have made twords equality in our society.
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>These are all angry replies, wehther true or not, they do not get any important points across.
>Rusl Limbaugh makes sexist and intolerant statements,
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> Hoping that you'll at least listen,
> Joe Myers
>myers@crayola.cs.psu.edu
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Miss Oconner had every right to tear up the picture of the
Pope. She has every right to look the way she does. She even
has the right to sing the way she does.
In my opinion she looks like shit...She sings like
shit...and her political phiosophy is full of shit.
I have a right to my opinions and so does Mr. Limbaugh.
Your statements above seem to give me the impression that
you believe Miss Oconner has the right to make any kind of
