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Sent: 6/14/96; 1:41:49 PM
From: gregm@ren.pcdocs.com (Greg Meece)
Dave -
In your last DaveNet piece you wrote: <..there are no pictures of naked women to keep the flow up or to outrage the bible-thumpers who demanded censorship and lost.>
I haven't said anything prior to now because I believe everyone's entitled to a faux paus now and then. Nonetheless, I'm really getting tired of your continual smearing of those who call themselves "christian".
I have a challenge for you: go back through your articles this past year, and everywhere you have put fundamentalist, christian, or bible-thumper, replace it with some other ethnic or racial epithet. Does that make it any nicer? No, it does not. It stings a little.
You replied to someone a few months ago that you were only reflecting what you were reported in the media. Oh, yeah. Suddenly the man full of his own "spin" on things, cops out and pleads ignorance vis a vi the media. I don't buy it Dave - you know better.
Want to complain about the CDA (I didn't like it either - I'm glad it's been overturned)? Go ahead and refer to those who wanted an unrealistic, unwieldy form of censorship. But don't slam a whole religion or group of people just because it's easier to label them than to deal with complex issues.
The easier it becomes to label people, the easier it becomes to dehumanize them. The more people are dehumanized, the easier it is to deny them basic rights. The more basic rights we remove (including free speech!), we are moving towards victimizing a group of people.
Your speech is your own - you can say what you like. So can Louis Farrakahn (sp?). So can David Duke. These two (along with scores of others) like to lump people into categories and blame "them" for the problems they see.
Consider what I've said, Dave. I appeciate you as an individual, even if I don't always agree with what you say.
Sincerely,
Greg Meece Software Engineer - Macintosh Quality Assurance PC DOCS, Inc. 124 Marriott Drive Tallahassee, FL 32301
Web Site: http://www.pcdocs.com/
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