From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!whuxlb!npl
Newsgroups: net.flame
Title: slur
Article-I.D.: whuxlb.330
Posted: Thu Jul  1 23:37:48 1982
Received: Fri Jul  2 01:41:51 1982

Now that a couple of days have elapsed since I read the Mcdonald's
joke and I have had time to simmer down, I feel a few comments
are warranted.

1. Racism has no business on the NET! 
For that matter, racism has no business existing in a civilized
society!
The joke itself, the followup to the well deserved harangue, (hey bro, etc.)
and the comment by ...!philabs!guest that "some of his best friends...."
are all racist in nature and define the perpetrators to be people
with small minds.
(For the record, I am neither black, nor of any other racial or ethnic
minority. I am a GOLDWATER conservative.  Sometimes I bill myself
as a "redneck" just to get the "liberals" jumping up and down.)
2. The best thing that can come of this incident is that it will
be forgotten.  The worst is that the specter of censorship will again
be threatened.  I do not want my news articles or mail censored by
anyone, but, if the kind of drivel I referred to above is on the
NET then I don't blame anyone who votes for censoring news articles.
(Yet another example of some flaming a**hole ruining a good thing!)
The concept of "free speech" is ok in the abstract but
can you imagine some "Affirmative Action Supervisor" seeing that
NET submission and going through the roof? I can!
( I went through the roof and I'm not a supporter of the
way AA is being implemented! )
3. For the sake of the users of the net, let's police our own selves
and keep such vermin as ....!philabs!guest from polluting our
network or we might not have a network.