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- From: guillory@crhc.uiuc.edu (Stanford Guillory)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers,alt.discrimination
- Subject: Re: Waldenbooks fires staff for refusing to sell racist book!
- Date: 10 Sep 1992 07:26:51 -0500
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- halvers@procyon.crd.ge.com (Pete Halverson) writes:
-
-
- >You neglected to include Mr. Preston's subsequent paragraph, which makes it
- >clear that he was not seriously proposing having Mr. Harris' account
- >revoked:
-
- It was not necessary. Everyone has read it. I was not, as one poster
- put it, selectively editing to change the slant of the article. The
- original was there for anyone to read.
-
-
- >I don't believe anyone in this thread, except in jest, has suggested
- >denying Mr. Harris' ability to boycott Waldenbooks or to persuade others to
- >join him, regardless of the pompous stupidity of the idea.
-
- I did not say that any one did. Some have taken my "stomp all over"
- phrase to mean "stop him from boycotting" when all I mean is that
- they are trashing him. Some pathetic folks even used the word
- disgusting. Boogers are disgusting. Open, pus filled wounds are
- disgusting. Get a grip.
-
- A boycott is not censorship. It is an attempt to reduce the amount
- of money someone will make. If that someone decides that it is
- not profitable enough to continue selling, supporting, whatever,
- that is a business decision.
-
- You might argue that the effect is the same. That may be. But
- capitulating to the profit line is just plain greed. Rather
- than debate the morality of boycotts, I am more concerned at
- how easy it is to bend a company to its knees and make them give.
-
- And to the person who said quote the whole text: Screw you. I
- will put as little text in my posts as possible to save bandwidth.
- If you don't like it, get a life. This isn't a research journal.
-
- >their generally liberal slant. Unfortunately it seems as though "Political
- >Correctness" takes automatic precedence over freedom of speech or, more
-
- And where in the hell did political correctness come into this!?
- You GOP types will do anything to get that loon re-elected.
-
-
-
- >Pete Halverson INET: halverson@crd.ge.com
- >GE Corporate R&D Center UUCP: uunet!crd.ge.com!halverson
- >Schenectady, NY
-
- Hey, I worked their in the summers of 86, 87, and 88.
-
- Stan
-