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- From: quilty@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Humberto Humbertoldi)
- Subject: Re: MacKinnon Suffers Snuff Harassment (was: Feminists, Radical and Otherwise)
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- References: <1992Nov13.221815.25739@midway.uchicago.edu> <BxrwoH.7I1@nic.umass.edu> <1992Nov15.211540.20526@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 04:46:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov15.211540.20526@leland.Stanford.EDU> farthing@leland.Stanford.EDU (ljf) writes:
- >In article <BxrwoH.7I1@nic.umass.edu> quilty@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Humberto Humbertoldi) writes:
-
- .....[stuff deleted, not bad, but bandwidth's bandwidth]....
- >>Really! I can't think of anything which more parrots the urban legend
- >>about the existence of snuff-films than "researching" them!
- >
- >Why is investigating snuff-films parroting an urban legend? It seems
- >to me that people who claim snuff-films don't exist would welcome her
- >investigation. What better end to the urban legend than to have a
- >very vocal anti-porn female feminist annouce that she spent months
- >(perhaps years) trying to find one and never did?
-
- Perhaps I was to cavalier in assuming this was obvious. But here's
- what I meant: if I were to research the numbers of people with blue
- aura's versus the number w/ red ones, I would be making a BIG
- ontological supposition that people had auras at all... otherwise the
- question just don't make no sense. Same goes with this snuff-film
- nonsense. MacK isn't claiming to research the prevalent cultural
- myths about snuff-film conspiracies, she's claiming to research
- "snuff-films"... You can also make a pretty damn sure bet that she's
- not going to report at the end of "years" of research that there was
- no such thing as s-films... she's going to say that "although no
- concrete cases were uncovered, this was because of the extreme secrecy
- and conspiracy that underlies their production".. and perhaps that
- MacK had to stop her research because of the extreme danger to her life.
- >
- >So if you're intelligent, you automatically assume that there is no
- >such thing as a snuff-film?
- >
- No, if you've followed the whole antiporn hysteric effort to uncover
- such films over the last thirty or more years with absolutely no
- success THEN you assume there is no such thing. The FBI, Dept.
- Justice, Congressional Committees, Meese Commission, not to mention
- various radfems have all tried to uncover such things in vain. If
- you're intelligent you assume that something doesn't exist if massive
- decades long search fails to show ANY EVIDENCE that it does.
-
- .......[irrelevant stuff about child abuse deleted]......
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