Xref: utzoo soc.culture.jewish:8647 news.misc:2355 news.sysadmin:1891 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!gatech!mcnc!thorin!unc!oliver From: oliver@unc.cs.unc.edu (Bill Oliver) Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,news.misc,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Anti-Semite witch hunt Message-ID: <5786@thorin.cs.unc.edu> Date: 8 Dec 88 23:09:09 GMT References: <49196@pyramid.pyramid.com> <401@hropus.UUCP><1017@lzfme.att.com> Sender: news@thorin.cs.unc.edu Reply-To: oliver@unc.UUCP (Bill Oliver) Organization: University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 38 In article <1017@lzfme.att.com> brs@lzfme.UUCP (xmrj5-B.SCHWARTZ) writes: >>In article clong@topaz.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) writes: >>If if comes down to it, I'd rather stand with the anti-Semites than >>with the witch-hunters and the censors. Don't people ever learn? > >Well, Chris, now we know where YOU stand. > >It'd be interesting to know how many others would rather stand >with anti-Semites. It proves the point that many on the net don't view >anti-semitism as an evil. They feel it should be tolerated. > Oh, bullshit. The best defense against folk saying untruth about any group -- religious, ethnic, whatever is not to bring forth the Inquisition and start burning offensive books and censoring offensive people. It is to state the truth in response. Every time the neo-nazis march in some city, and every time they publish one of their little leaflets or magazines, they make themselves look like idiots. I suppose that because I am against the kind of censorship that has been used to silence Mr. Templeton, and because I extend my distaste of censorship generally that means that I, as a member of the ACLU, also stand with the anti-Semites against the witch-hunters. If that makes me an anti-Semite, that also makes me both a communist and a fascist and a capitalist and a libertaritan. It makes me anti-Semitic and anti-anti-Semitic. It makes me anti-everything and pro-everything in your book. I hope you have enough room in your blacklist to keep track of all the appropriate labels you would give me. >I still believe that it is hurtful and evil. Not nearly as hurtful as thought control or as evil as central control of what people can say and print. Bill Oliver