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From: ellis@flairvax.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Hate Mongering & the Public Forum
Message-ID: <154@flairvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Jul-83 04:09:17 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 11 04:09:17 1983
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    There are many ways to abuse a public forum, some of them relatively
    harmless - such as childish use of obscenites, etc. - some of them
    potentially dangerous - such as using terms that categorize a group
    of human beings as beneath respect.

    When a community allows language in the second category to persist,
    it has become the voice of hate, a breeding ground for the Hitler's
    of the future.

    Michael Ellis - Fairchild AI Lab - Palo Alto CA - (415) 321-0990