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- From: cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton)
- Subject: Re: Waldenbooks fires staff for refusing to sell racist book!
- Reply-To: cmort@ncoast.org (Christopher Morton)
- Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 11:27:02 GMT
- Message-ID: <BuD153.6yI@NCoast.ORG>
- Followup-To: misc.consumers
- References: <8996@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> <GABRIELE.92Sep8120256@solecism.aero.org> <1992Sep8.221558.27101@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- As quoted from <1992Sep8.221558.27101@m.cs.uiuc.edu> by kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie):
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- > gabriele@aero.org (Mark Gabriele) writes:
- >
- > >The ex-manager of the Waldenbooks store who was interviewed by NPR
- > >said explicitly that they had no interest in censoring the offensive
- > >calendar/date book. What he wanted to do was remove it from the
- > >display,
- > [...]
- >
- > Removing it from display was still censorship (or more correctly,
- > "supression"). I'm enclosing a pointer to the ALA's definition of
- > censorship.
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- I wonder how the supporters of this would feel about a Walden's in the Bible
- belt which ONLY removed from display the works of Armisted Maupin, so as not
- to condone homosexuality...?
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