[116939] in Cypherpunks
Re: Cowards?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Cordian)
Tue Aug 24 03:20:20 1999
From: Eric Cordian <emc@wire.insync.net>
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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 13:13:20 -0500 (CDT)
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Anonymous <nobody@replay.com> writes:
>> What if Safeway said you couldn't buy food there if you criticized
>> Israeli politics?
> Other grocery stores would profit thereby.
Surrounded by screaming Jews throwing rocks and yelling "Remember the
Holocaust?" I think not.
Which grocery store would be the first to announce that they proudly sold
food to people who "advocated and promoted" Neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic
views, as their detractors would be sure to characterize such behavior.
Which national bookstore is going to commit suicide by announcing "proudly
featuring more than one point of view on adolescent sexuality," and having
incest and sexual abuse victims picketing and vomiting on cue before news
cameras? Would they profit before or after the US Congress voted
unanamously to condemn them for "sending the wrong message about child
abuse?"
These things are a lot more complicated than your simple analogy would
suggest.
>> What if you couldn't rent a hotel room if you wore a nose ring? What
>> if it were the only hotel in town?
> Sleep in the car.
So your advice to Rosa Parks would have been - "walk or buy a bicycle?"
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Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
