X-From-Line: nobody Sat Jun 20 11:28:15 1998 Newsgroups: uk.people.gothic Subject: Re: Anyone else disgusted by how right wing the mood is here? References: <35803c62.3926556@news.ftech.net> <874sxukjnp.fsf@hedonism.demon.co.uk> <6lmfgt$284$1@xibalba.xibalba.demon.co.uk> <35b73eaf.48822439@news.demon.co.uk> <3584CAE4.BF132584@onlinemagic.com> <358ac041.2562743@news.demon.co.uk> <35877BCB.652B5DBD@onlinemagic.com> <35895d37.2904930@news.demon.co.uk> <358A2354.6AF50A1F@onlinemagic.com> From: Paul Crowley Date: 20 Jun 1998 11:28:14 +0100 Message-ID: <877m2cs6yp.fsf@hedonism.demon.co.uk> X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.2.25/XEmacs 19.14 Lines: 29 Xref: hedonism.demon.co.uk misc-news:506 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 506 Sat Jun 20 11:28:15 1998 guy ruth hammond writes: > or consider a person wearing a tshirt advocating racist behavior - > who has the rights, him to wear the tshirt or the people around him > not be be offended? You're still arguing as if there were a labour shortage and we needed all hands on deck. There isn't, and this whole nonsense is a rather weak attempt to blame unemployment on the unemployed. May I suggest that those of us still bothering to argue with this thread designate this GRH Response 1, or GRH-R1 for short? It'll save us typing it out in full every time we need to make this point. But you accidentally raise an interesting point. Some places won't allow you to wear any symbol or slogan advocating a hotly contested point of view. However, frequently their definition of "hotly contested" ends up bolstering the media's attempts to distort our picture of what is widely believed: for example, you'll be allowed to wear a "Scotland Against Drugs" badge in Sainsbury's, but wear a "Scotland Against Drugs Hypocrisy" badge and your supervisor will want a word with you. Thus it would be easy to get the impression that the majority of people who hold down steady jobs are either in favour of drug prohibition or neutral on the subject, whereas it could just as easily be the case that every other cashier goes raving every fortnight. -- __ \/ o\ paul@hedonism.demon.co.uk Edinburgh fetish club Permission \ / /\__/ Paul Crowley July 12 http://www.hedonism.demon.co.uk/permission /~\