Re: Lolita

blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Tue, 16 Mar 1999 16:26:43 -0500 (EST) 

Nah, you're following stereotypes and not looking at all the different
forms of censorship in this society.  It's not just about the stupidity
of picketing "The Last Temptation of Christ" without having taken the
time to read the book (or understand it, for that matter).  How many
fundamentalists do you know are teaching in State Universities?  It's not
because there aren't competent ones out there.  It's because they just
aren't hired for those positions, esp. when the market is glutted with
professors.

Jim

"The written word is a power of such magnitude that only pedants would
try to reduce it to rules.  Or the French."

--F.K.

On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:53:36 -0600 Matthew_Stevenson@baylor.edu writes:
>For no reason whatever I will toss my hat (head included) into the 
>ring of
>political propagandizing.  The problem that exists with the Right does 
>not
>exist with the Left in America.  rick is correct on this count.  The 
>problem
>with the Left is that it simply does not exist in any major party in 
>the U.S.
>The Religious Right has the Republicans by the balls, but the 
>Democrats are
>too busy going for that all important centrist vote to be considered 
>Leftist
>at all.
>
>Consulting my Ouija board I find that:
>Only when the stock market crashes in the near future, and the U.S. is 
>forced
>to look the rest of the world in the eye again, will we see the 
>emergence of a
>new powerful Left Wing in U.S. politics.
>
>
>>(But just for the record, the same problem DOES NOT exist on the left 
>as on
>>the right, that is just not true -- but it is also not my point. I 
>was not
>>stressing the conservatism of the right, but specifically the 
>religious
>>righteousness of that faction, which happens to sit on the right. I 
>am very
>>sick & tired of those creeps waving their bibles, the most dangerous 
>book in
>>the world, kerosene for ignorant mongoloids everywhere, around 
>telling me
>>what's right & what's wrong. And despite all appearances to the 
>contrary, I
>>was not suggesting that everyone who reads the bible is an ignorant
>>mongoloid.)
>>
>>rick
>
>

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