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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: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 15:58:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <By4KE5.BHE@NCoast.ORG>
- Followup-To: alt.feminism
- References: <1992Nov16.175651.20693@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov16.205845.10463@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> <1992Nov16.230409.298@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- As quoted from <1992Nov16.230409.298@midway.uchicago.edu> by thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank):
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- > In article <1992Nov16.205845.10463@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- > >mec6@quads.uchicago.edu (rini) writes:
- > >:
- > >: What's interesting about this debate is that Robert Sheaffer writes
- > >: for the _Skeptical Inquirer_. I thought those folks *liked* to
- > >: investigate things they suspected were false and *welcomed*
- > >: any evidence to the contrary. (??)
- > >
- > >Certainly - how about presenting some evidence that is meaningful?
- > >Then, we will listen.
- >
- > In this case, I'll have to side with Rini. Sheaffer was ridiculing
- > MacKinnon for even *bothering* to research the issue. Now, it could
- > very well be that the research will be fruitless. But, then, that's
- > MacKinnon's decision to waste her time. She may very well be disappointed
- > with the lack of evidence she finds. I fully expect her to be. But
- > I fail to see what harm it does. It could be the best debunking
- > of the myth if one of its most famous proponents were to come forward
- > and admit that there's no evidence that there's a snuff film industry
- > killing dozens of women a year for prurient interest.
- >
- At what point does "research" end and perpetuation of myth begin? How many
- times does the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" have to be "researched"
- before we can conclude that it's bullshit? At some point will it BE true, or
- are both of these phenomena just part of the cottage industry of warped
- mythology that flourishes in insular little circles here...?
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