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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Subject: Re: Death Threats and Pornography (was: Re: MacKinnon Suffers Snuff Harassment)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.222331.23196@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Nov21.053111.27045@netcom.com> <1992Nov21.063808.903@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov21.182026.14492@panix.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 22:23:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.182026.14492@panix.com> gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch) writes:
- >sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer) writes:
- >| >...
- >| >No, I was ridiculing the claim that MacKinnon began to be the victim
- >| >of an apparently organized harassment as soon as she dared to investigate
- >| >the dreaded Snuff mafia.
- >
- >thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >| I see no evidence that MacKinnon made this claim.
- >
- >In the article on the censorship dispute at U. Mich. which I
- >posted in soc.feminism, there was some mention that anti-
- >prostitution speakers and "sex workers" had been subjected to
- >threats connected with pornography or opposition to it. In
- >addition, I have read accounts of sellers of pornography
- >being subjected to death threats.
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- > Given the passions aroused
- >by the subject of sex-repression-and-pornography (can't have
- >one without the other, so it's really one thing)
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- I see three things, do you mean you can't have ---
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- sex without repression
- repression without pornography
- sex without pornography
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- or the reverse? (you can't have which-one without which-other?)
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- Or did you forget a smiley? :^)
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- I think it would be better to leave them as three distinct subjects.
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- > and the very
- >large amounts of money involved in the business, it would not
- >be suprising if any public move by a figure mainly identified
- >with the matter would elicit death threats. Of course, not
- >having access to police records or Ms. MacKinnon's telephone
- >line, I can't verify her assertion, but it's certainly not
- >inconceivable that such threats were received.
- >--
- >
- > )*( Gordon Fitch )*( gcf@panix.com )*(
- >( 1238 Blg. Grn. Sta., NY NY 10274 * 718.273.5556 )
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- Rich
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- payner@netcom.com
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