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- Subject: Re: Colorado Ski Report, etc., etc., etc.
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:11:30 GMT
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- Jim Rosinski (rosinski@isis.cgd.ucar.edu) wrote:
- : The question is not which criteria are "acceptable" in the sense that we
- : approve of them, but rather which criteria should be *legal*. This country
- : tolerates *speech* which a vast majority of its citizens find repugnant, and
- : there are good reasons for this. Why should hiring/firing practices be any
- : different?
-
- Because people's livelyhoods depend on their employers' hiring/firing practices,
- not speech patterns. A fairly quantitative difference, I think.
-
- -Devin
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- Devin Hooker (RP90) (SotM 7/91) DoD #0034 devin@boulder.colorado.edu ------
- "It's being both that's a bitch." --\--- /
- "I wanted to take my brain to hell and back and see what I had left." \ \ //
- "This howling in the distance, it's a captivating sound. \ \/
- Can't tell if it's ecstasy or pain..." -DW \/
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