Dead Commisars (was:neo-Nazi)

[Vaska]

Thanks, John: this was simply lovely.  You know, the people on the
African-American lit list have no trouble distinguishing this from a bona
fide free speech issue -- none whatsoever....

In friendship,
Vaska

At 11:21 AM 7/14/97 PST, you wrote:
>What's that little scene from the Kirghiz light episode of GR?
>Imposition of the Cyrillic alphabet, someone writes, *Kill the Commisar*
>onna wall, a-and the next day someone does!! Narrator comes on
>to tell us that *Jeepers, this new alphabet is really something!*
>
>john m
>*****
>on this note:
>>
>>Vaska, why on earth do you equate Writing, which as far as I know has never
>>killed anyone or made a building burn down, with murder and arson? Are you
>>really incapable of seeing that there is a world of difference between the
two?
>>I see a *huge* gulf between offensive speech and physical acts, and I remain
>>an absolutist where free speech is concerned.
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