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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: MacKinnon Suffers Snuff Harassment (was: Feminists, Radical and Otherwise)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.205234.18854@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:52:34 GMT
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- cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton) writes:
- : >
- : > 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...?
-
- Exactly. Why would an amateur, such at MacKinnon, expect to have any more
- success than the professions in the Department of Justice or the FBI? All
- she can do is satisfy herself.
-
- I expect that she thoroughly believe that such material is readily available.
- I also expect that, when she finds out it is not true, that she will quietly
- drop the matter - as if she had never brought it up in the first place.
-
- Bill
-