Chip Berlet wrote:
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> Writing for Hustler is to women, what writing for a Ku Klux Klan magazine is to Black people.
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> Reach one potential audience at the expense of an exisitng ally.
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> Bad politics bad strategy, bad tactics.
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The knee-jerk and usually unanalyzed anti-puritanism so pervasive on the left for the last 40 years terrifies everyone on this topic.
Also, at least on this list, there is an obsessive and probably unhealthy concern with reaching the followers of Falwell & David Duke rather than with reaching the 10s of millions who already agree with us on the war, on anti-racism, on women's liberation and other key issues.
Carrol