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- From: egreen@east.sun.com (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Waldenbooks fires staff for refusing to se
- Date: 8 Sep 1992 19:44:51 GMT
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- In article 5SEP199223305034@acad3.alaska.edu, 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.
-
- And if the staff of the local Krogers refuses to sell bananas,
- objecting to their obvious phallic connotations, they will be fired.
-
- Hint: the local manager and the guy running the cash register do not
- set policy for national retail chains.
-
- >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.
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- Who shouldn't buy the damned thing.
-
- "I am offended" is the rallying cry of the new age of censorship,
- repression, and coersion.
-
-
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- Ed Green, former Ninjaite |I was drinking last night with a biker,
- Ed.Green@East.Sun.COM |and I showed him a picture of you. I said,
- DoD #0111 (919)460-8302 |"Go on, get to know her, you'll like her!"
- (The Grateful Dead) --> |It seemed like the least I could do...
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