Message Number: |
349 |
From: |
Daniel Reeves <dreeves Æ umich.edu> |
Date: |
Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:15:16 -0500 (EST) |
Subject: |
Re: free speech infringement alert (fwd) |
(read from the bottom up)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: [anonymous]
Subject: Re: free speech infringement alert
I would be ok with sending the Nazi bit to improvetheworld, but not under
my name. Anonymous would be best. [...]
--- Daniel Reeves wrote:
> It's a good thing I took down the Danish cartoons because you're right,
> I would have been consistency-bound to post Irving's racist tracts too.
>
> I do strongly oppose Austria's law, on principle.
>
> As to why I removed the Danish cartoons, it was after Alyssa's email
> about the inflammatory power of religious images which finally brought
> home the point that you and others were making that nothing really good
> can come from fanning those flames. (Though I'm still torn about this.)
>
> Do forward this on to improvetheworld if you're ok with having this
> conversation become public.
>
> Daniel
>
> --- \/ FROM [anonymous] \/ ---
>
>> It appears as though you have already taken down the Danish cartoons.
>> I'd be interested to know why--[...]. I thought you might want to know
>> about an actual case of free speech censorship that took place in
>> Austria. David Irving, a Holocaust denier, was sentenced to three years
>> in prison under anti-Nazi laws. Since you posted the Danish cartoons
>> under the banner of free speech, maybe you'd consider posting links to
>> Irving's literature. Note that this should be a even stronger
>> candidate under your rationale since he was not only being prevented
>> from expressing a viewpoint, he is being jailed for it.
>> -[anonymous]
>> (Just for the record and in case there was any doubt whatsoever, I am
>> not actually advocating that you associate yourself with this man--for
>> obvious reasons.)
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