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- Newsgroups: misc.consumers,misc.books.technical,alt.discrimination
- Subject: Re: Waldenbooks fires staff for refusing to sell racist book!
- Keywords: boycott
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.111650.2817@newstand.syr.edu>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 15:16:50 GMT
- References: <5SEP199223305034@acad3.alaska.edu>
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- Organization: Syracuse University
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- In article <5SEP199223305034@acad3.alaska.edu> jsdph@acad3.alaska.edu (Dennis P. Harris) writes:
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- >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. I also intend to write
- >St. Martins Press and tell them I'm boycotting them, too. The book's author is
- Oooh, I love it! Some true PC censorship going on here.
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- >There is no Waldenbooks store in my area, or I would have dropped in and told
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- So you know it will be one hell of an effective boycott!!!!
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- What a schmuck!
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