END WHITE RULE NOW --- THIS IS WAR

Jim heartfield jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Tue Oct 20 12:04:50 PDT 1998


In message <l03130312b252756530ee@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes
>[Did anyone else get this? ]
>
>Listen up you white trailer trash,
>
>We as beatiful people of color are apalled at the feet draging going on to
>cencor
>these white trash scum off of the internet.

The ideas expressed in this post are more of a problem than the sites that they are attacking, and not just because of the bad spelling.

The fact that the whole thing is expressed in racial terms that entirely mirror the prejudices of the white supremacists is only the least of its problems.

More to the point, this posting seeks to give an anti-racist gloss to a campaign to institute state regulation of people's ideas and words. Such a campaign starts from the entirely false premise that the greatest danger we face is other people, and that the state are our friend and champion.

Flaming the racist sites seems an entirely positive protest to me, because it appeals to ordianry people to do the job. Calling on Uncle Bill Clinton to get tough seems like the most stupid policy imaginable. -- Jim heartfield



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