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- From: paien00@DMI.USherb.CA (Nick)
- Subject: Re: Virginie's TV violence petition
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- References: <1992Nov19.105641.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:15:22 GMT
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- 4224_5201@uwovax.uwo.ca (John LaRocque) a ecrit:
- >
- > I always get suspicious when children get involved in political
- >campaigns. I look at some of the kids at the anti-abortion rallies and
- >wonder if their parents didn't put them up to it or brainwash them that
- >going to those rallies was a fundamentally good thing. Which brings me
- >back to Virginie.
-
- So do I...
-
- >
- > According to her petition (which apparantly 1 million morons signed),
- >tv is responsible for North American violence. Her elder sister was the
- >victim of a violent crime, and according to Virginie, TV is responsible.
- >Bullshit!
- >
- > Little Virginie is Quebecois. While that shouldn't change the scope of
- >debate I think a few facts should be brought into the open. Quebecois have
- >more European attitudes towards North America's OTHER great phobia... SEX.
- >In Montreal few people would go to war over sexy signs advertising "danseuses
- >nues" (that doesn't include City Council). Few people complain about the
- >amount of sex in programs like Lance et Compte or Les Filles de Caleb (which
- >had a record 3 million audience watching one night). If you told a Quebecer
- >that sexy signs or a near naked Mitsou causes men to go and rape women, they
- >would laugh in your face. So why the f**k would people make the
- >same infantile conclusion regarding violence on TV.
-
- Is sex scenes suppossed to be violent????
-
- > I would suggest to all the morons who signed the petition to stop blaming
- >an entertainment medium for all the REAL problems on the planet. I would
- >suggest that they supply REAL solutions, and not blame the fictionalized
- >emacsculated violence of the small screen.
-
- It's not because you don't have any effects on violence that everybody
- is like you! Face it there's a lot of weirdos out there and God knows
- what they can do when they see images of an heros who's shooting
- everybody????
-
- >
- > No, and anybody who thinks otherwise is ignoring the real causes
- >of violence in North America.
-
- witch is????
-
- --
- Nick
- - Ce n'est pas parce qu'une rumeur ne tient
- pas debout... qu'elle ne peut courir !
-