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Re: Censorial leftists (Was: Interesting article)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Wed Dec 3 23:04:10 1997
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 10:47:56 -0800
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
From: David Honig <honig@otc.net>
Cc: Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>, Jay Holovacs <holovacs@idt.net>,
fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <v03102813b0ab38f3a815@[207.167.93.63]>
Reply-To: David Honig <honig@otc.net>
At 09:44 AM 12/3/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>At 8:42 AM -0700 12/3/97, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>>This is nothing new. Honest (self-identified) leftists like my friend Bob
>>Chatelle complain about the censors on the left almost as much as censors
>>on the right. Other fave leftist censorship causes:
>>
>>-- MacKinnonite antiporn laws (she's a self-identified Marxist, I recall)
>
>And her partner, Andrea Dworkin, belies the oft-quoted notion that someone
>so far to the left comes out a libertarian rightist. No, this chick Dworkin
>is so far left she's just plain _left_. She argues that porn for womyn (or
>is it wimmin?) is fine and dandy, because this represents lesbian
>sisterhood exploring their own blah blah blah, but porn aimed and directed
What you watch is pornography;
What I watch is erotica.
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