Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 17:06:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Lynna Landstreet <lynna@yorku.ca>
To: webgrrls-toronto@webgrrls.com
Subject: TWG: Re: Net Censorship (was: Please Help)

Liz & Ron <elayne@ica.net> writes:

>We can never be too vigilant where these neo-nazi groups are concerned!!!
>As for "offending sensibilities" or being a "hoax" or akin to the "business
>card thing", lest we forget -- 6 millions lives  were lost.  I don't mean to
>lecture but there are some of us out there who remain surprisingly ignorant
>of the  horrors that the Nazis inflicted during WWII.  For some of us our
>only exposure to this is through Schindler's List.  Incidentally, I have
>heard some people say that they refuse to see this movie because it's just
>anti-German propaganda.
>
>In case anyone thinks that neo-nazis pose no risk, there is a reformed
>neo-nazi, Tom Leydon, touring the Toronto area now.  He was on Studio 2 last
>night and there is an article on him in today's T.O. Star.

I don't think anyone was saying neo-Nazis pose no risk. I just can't see
how circulating a two-year-old message urging people urging people to cast
votes in a poll that's long over is going to do anything other than waste
people's time and cause problems. I don't recall anyone saying that no one
should care about the issues at stake, just that this message had its facts
wrong.

On the censorhip issue, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to know
that it's a tool that can be used against you as well as for you.
Feminists, gays and lesbians, and many others *are* being targetted *right
now* by would-be Net censors. I'm as much in favour of fighting Nazis as
anyone - part of my family lived through the Nazi occupation of the
Netherlands! But I think we have to choose our weapons carefully, because
some of them may blow up in our faces when we least expect it.

Lynna

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