Obviously

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Oct 21 09:48:46 PDT 2000


James Heartfield wrote:


> In message <200010201904984.SM00134@[192.168.1.8]>, martin schiller
> <mschiller at mac.com> writes
>
> >Printing gave us racial hate literature, religious tracts furthering
> >intolerance, etc., from which spring wars and genocides.
>
> Which is bizarre. Nazis *burned* books and banned literature. The battle
> against intolerance starts with ideas. The prevention of literature
> invariably leads to burning people.

Come on James. Stop shooting fish in a barrel. Respond to Yoshie's development of my initial point instead of focusing on what is (obviously) bizarre.

Carrol



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