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- From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers,alt.discrimination,alt.censorship
- Subject: Re: Waldenbooks fires staff for refusing to sell racist book!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.183119.15009@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 18:31:19 GMT
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- so@fortran.cs.psu.edu (Nicol C So) writes:
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- [...]
- >The boycotters are exerting their "fair share" of influence on the business
- >decision of bookstore owners, there is nothing morally wrong with these
- >people.
- [...]
-
- By your argument all boycotts are moral. Would you feel the same about
- this boycott if it's goal was to suppress books by all black authors?
- Would you still say: 'The boycotters are exerting their "fair share"
- of influence on the business decision of bookstore owners, there is
- nothing morally wrong with these people.'?
-
- I oppose this boycott not because I think boycotts are inherently
- immoral, but because I oppose its goals, namely, the suppression of
- material that some people find offensive.
-
- - Carl
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- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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