> From: John D. Giorgis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > At 06:31 PM 2/29/2004 -0500 Bryon Daly wrote: > >>From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>At 02:40 AM 2/29/2004 -0500 Bryon Daly wrote: > >> >* Disclaimer: "Within reason". I admit that there are probably certain > >> >extreme views > >> >on certain topics that would cause me to want to make their supporters > >>feel > >> >*very* > >> >unwelcome here. > >> > >>Can I take a guess as to what these might be? > >> > >>Perhaps supporters of, say, the KKK, the Nazis' "Final Solution", Al Qaeda, > >>Wahabbisim.and supporters of continued "martyrdom" operations against > >>Israeli Civilians? > > > >Yes, probably, depending upon what exactly was being said by them. It'd be > >nice > >to be able to advocate totally free speech of any kind on the list, but I > >fear that > >would ultimately reduce the list to chaos. The ACLU might give me an F, I > >suppose, > >but I think any discussion *on this list* on those topics with those types > >of supporters > >would serve little purpose but to lower the S/N ratio of the list to zero. > > > >Who am I to decide where to draw that line between acceptable/unacceptable > >discussion? Nobody. But I'm generally content to leave the line-setting to > >the list > >owners and to group opinion. > > > >John, do you disagree with that list, or find it hypocritical of me to be > >drawing the line > >at a point of topics that I find personally most offensive? > > Not at all.... I think that I would be uncomfortable seeing the above > opions espoused here. > > It did occur to me to wonder, however, if there is really such a material > difference between the above opinions and the following opinion: > > "One of the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is > the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected." > > Isn't calling for the exclusion of people with religious beliefs from > respectability in a free society just as offensive?
Isn't making HOMOPHOBIC remarks in response to famous quotation that you (JDG) don't understand even more offensive? _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
