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- From: larryd@milton.u.washington.edu (Larry Desoto)
- Subject: Re: Waldenbooks fires staff for refusing to sell racist book!
- Message-ID: <larryd.715808902@milton>
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- Organization: University of Washington
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- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 19:48:22 GMT
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- jsdph@acad3.alaska.edu (Dennis P. Harris) writes:
-
- >According to a story on today's NPR Morning Edition, Waldenbooks has fired the
- >staff of its Georgetown store in Washington, DC for refusing to sell the
- >"Joke-A-Date" appointment calendar, which contains racist and demeaning "jokes"
- >for each day of 1993. After hearing some examples in the story of some of the
- >"jokes", I agree with the former WB employees that the publication (from St.
- >Martins Press, which should know better) would offend a large number of
- >bookstore customers.
-
- >I have already informed WB that I intend to boycott them until they stop
- >selling the book and reinstate the fired employees by posting a message to
- >their user services folks in their Walden Computerbooks on-line store in the
- >Compu$erve Mall (GO WB), and I urge others to join me.
-
- How nice that the Georgetown Waldenbook's staff and you know best what
- politically incorrect reading materials should be removed from the shelves.
- Perhaps you can suggest other materials from which we should be shielded?
- Just think. With such guardians, I won't have to decide for myself whether
- or not it is offensive...and, maybe not buy it.
-
- If you don't like it, don't buy it. Meanwhile, it isn't your place to tell
- me or anyone else whether or not certain material is fit to read.
-
- BTW: How do you feel about people who suggest such incorrect literature
- as "Huckleberry Finn" or maybe the "Grapes of Wrath" be removed from
- library shelves?
-
- --
- Larry | Thunder makes all the noise;
- | lightning gets the job done.
- larryd@milton.washington.edu
- I have my opinion; the university has its own.
-