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- From: 4224_5201@uwovax.uwo.ca (John LaRocque)
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- Subject: Re: Virginie's TV violence petition
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 22:45:15 GMT
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- In article <Bxz3xn.1zu@DMI.USherb.CA>, paien00@DMI.USherb.CA (Nick) writes:
- > 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 !
- --
-
- John P. LaRocque
- vader@uwo.ca
- University of Western Ontario
- London, Ontario
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- "Urk..urk..."
- "Apologies accepted, Captian Nida", Darth Vader
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