Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cornell.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!cornell!ddw From: ddw@cornell.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Boy, am I catching it..... Message-ID: <4798@cornell.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Jul-83 00:50:29 EDT Article-I.D.: cornell.4798 Posted: Sat Jul 9 00:50:29 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Jul-83 19:03:52 EDT Sender: ddw@cornell.UUCP Organization: Cornell Computer Science Lines: 45 From: ddw (David Wright) To: net-flame Ray Jender seems utterly astonished that his original, highly intolerant article is drawing so much fire. Why all the fuss about the use of the word "Faggots"? It can be found in most dictionaries.. So can the word "nigger," but that doesn't make it socially acceptable. I thought this was net.flame? If I want to use this word I'll use it. Other people use words much more degrading on this net then faggot. Okay, use the word. But the fact that this is net.flame doesn't mean we can't flame at you for doing so. And even if other people are using even more offensive words, does this justify you? Do two wrongs make a right? Do you want to sink to their level? People are really getting upset at my using this word when the jest (sic) of my article went completely over there (sic) heads... I think you mean "gist" and "their" and we all got your point. Why is it that only a couple people bothered to ask "Who the heck are the Vashchenko's"? Well, I didn't ask because I knew who they were. Maybe some other people did, too. My article was a flame because the Gay Pride Parade got coverage on page 2 of the Chi. Sun-Times while the Vashchenko story ended up on page 10. In my local paper, the stories appeared on the same page. Better check out those dangerous radicals running the Sun-Times. They are doubtless agents of the international communist conspiracy. David "Better dead than Red" Wright {vax135|decvax|ihnss}!cornell!ddw ddw.cornell@udel-relay ddw@cornell