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- From: cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton)
- Subject: Re: MacKinnon Suffers Snuff Harassment (was: Feminists, Radical and Otherwise)
- Reply-To: cmort@ncoast.org (Christopher Morton)
- Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:55:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bxx8Cs.Dos@NCoast.ORG>
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- References: <misdeva-091192161955@morse-college-kstar-node.net.yale.edu> <1992Nov10.010803.27326@netcom.com> <misdeva-101192162448@morse-college-kstar-node.net.yale.edu>
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- As quoted from <misdeva-101192162448@morse-college-kstar-node.net.yale.edu> by misdeva@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu (Devjani Mishra):
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- > In article <1992Nov10.010803.27326@netcom.com>, sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert
- > Sheaffer) wrote:
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- > > and MUCH funnier still is the claim that the nasty Snuff-makers are
- > > constantly threatening and harassing the learned Prof. Mackinnon, that
- > > scourge of patriarchs everywhere. Wonderful humor here: the
- > > woman who invented "sex harassment" is now claiming "snuff harassment"!!!!!
- > >
- > > Robert Sheaffer - Scepticus Maximus - sheaffer@netcom.com
- > >
- >
- > I don't find death threats funny, on any level, regardless of what I may
- > think about the target's ideology. But I can say that I think belittling
- > such threats is disgusting, even morally repellent.
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- How about FICTITIOUS death threats? Do you find THEM funny? That was the
- obvious intent of Mr. Sheaffer. Did you find any humor in H. Ross Perot's
- unproveable claims of death threats and Black Panthers? I did.
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- I find nothing at all repellent in making fun of self-serving conspiracy
- theories, especially in the absence of any proof to support them.
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