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- From: brian@mel.dit.csiro.au (Brian May)
- Subject: Re: Rap music
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.073913.19235@mel.dit.csiro.au>
- Sender: news@mel.dit.csiro.au
- Organization: CSIRO DIT (Melb.)
- References: <1993Jan25.041320.1303@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 07:39:13 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.041320.1303@freenet.carleton.ca>, aa593@Freenet.carleton.ca (Iain Pidcock) writes:
- |>
- |> Oh oh. Misunderstood again. Please, no one is suggesting
- |> banning anything. I am the last person to suggest censorship
- |> and such like. I just thought that it would be useful if
- |> people stopped to think about what they are listening to.
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- If you hadn't had made such cut-and-dried statements in the beginning
- (more 'research' perhaps) you wouldn't have been interpreted so.
-
- I agree with your last sentance wholeheartedly. What people need
- is the ability to think for themselves, not mass xenophobia.
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- Also, think about why Ice T wrote "Cop Killer". I'm not condoning
- the song - just asking you to think about it. I think that the end
- product of the song diverted all attention from the issue it _should_
- have addressed (IMHO) and onto Mr T.
-
- brian
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