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re: Just wondering...

Robert — 4/19/2006 5:02:46 PM (archived)

The point about the use of "brutal" imagery was the lesser of my two points, but of course the one you latched on to. Nothing to say about the cynical use of religion to try and provide a shield for political speech?

I'm surprised you'd try the analogy with the Abu Ghraib pictures, it's so weak. Those pictures documented crimes that the Bush Administration would not have investigated without the publicity and tried for a long while to cover up. They're evidence, unlike the random and generic pictures of aborted fetuses, which anti-choice people use only to shock and to interfere with rational discussion of the issue. They're not evidence of anything--there's no dispute that abortions happen, nothing needs to be proved; all those pictures prove is the coarse sensibilities and imbecility of the anti-choice protesters, that they think that such things are actually useful arguments.

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Free speech on the campus - Tom Brosz - 4/15/2006 7:03:34 AM
- Here's my question to you. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/18/2006 6:53:51 AM
  - Your post leads me to conclude that the right is mainly composed of commiters of the hasty generalization fallacy - alcaray - 4/18/2006 3:14:10 PM
  - That's "rabblerousing". - Mary Anne - 4/18/2006 12:22:14 PM
    - Mary Anne, there is a note on Flame that needs a woman's touch (n/t) - alcaray - 4/18/2006 4:29:41 PM
    - You're not rabble MA you, and others here, are pure rebel. ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/18/2006 1:15:23 PM
- Professor suspended - Tom Brosz - 4/18/2006 4:34:48 AM
- re: Free speech on the campus - Robert - 4/17/2006 4:02:07 PM
  - re: Free speech on the campus - Tom Brosz - 4/18/2006 3:04:43 AM
    - The Scarecrow - Robert - 4/18/2006 3:51:26 PM
      - Sorry. You're flailing. - Tom Brosz - 4/18/2006 7:25:01 PM
    - As long as you're prepared to be fined and/or jailed for your action, yes. - Mary Anne - 4/18/2006 3:15:53 AM
  - I suspect the people who put up the crosses would have liked this response much less: - Mary Anne - 4/18/2006 1:12:14 AM
    - Or any number of responses - Robert - 4/18/2006 3:58:52 PM
      - Just wondering... - Tom Brosz - 4/18/2006 7:30:43 PM
        
        re: Just wondering... - Robert - 4/19/2006 5:02:46 PM
        
        Parallels - Tom Brosz - 4/19/2006 6:54:03 PM
        
        "If you can't stand the imagery, don't do the actions, right? " - Tony - 4/18/2006 9:00:48 PM
        
        The point, and I did have one, was the usual rank hypocrisy. - Tom Brosz - 4/19/2006 3:26:26 PM
        
        Sorta like banning pictures of coffins returning from Iraq... (n/t) - R.L. - 4/19/2006 7:08:35 AM
        
        Sorry. I'm from a long line of farmers. - Tom Brosz - 4/19/2006 12:32:30 AM
        
        Bully for you - Tony - 4/19/2006 1:40:08 AM
- I could describe my night on the floor of the republican convention - R.L. - 4/16/2006 7:04:08 AM
  - I have many more stories about how open minded your side was PRE-9-11 (n/t) - R.L. - 4/16/2006 7:07:23 AM
    - open minded - Tom Brosz - 4/16/2006 9:04:43 PM
      - Have you lost your mind? - R.L. - 4/16/2006 11:41:10 PM
        
        I'll settle for one example. - Tom Brosz - 4/17/2006 4:16:00 AM
        
        OK..... - R.L. - 4/17/2006 5:25:01 AM
        
        re: OK..... - Tom Brosz - 4/17/2006 6:08:42 AM
        
        Tom,would it matter if I found right wing equivalents of Ward Churchill? - R.L. - 4/17/2006 6:42:22 AM
        
        When did I become a university professor? - Lee - 4/17/2006 8:56:29 AM
        
        LOL... - R.L. - 4/17/2006 10:49:56 AM
        
        re: would it matter? - Tom Brosz - 4/17/2006 6:56:32 AM
- would any number of counterexamples matter? - R.L. - 4/16/2006 6:41:55 AM
- Only "Politically Correct" speech is free. - David F Mayer - 4/16/2006 5:08:49 AM
- Tom, a little less than 2 decades ago... - R.L. - 4/16/2006 4:52:56 AM
  - I'll grant you one point... - Tom Brosz - 4/16/2006 5:02:51 AM
    - I didn't make that comparison... - R.L. - 4/16/2006 5:14:40 AM
      - You didn't. She did. My thread was about her. Focus. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/16/2006 8:57:46 PM
      - Just out of curiousity - R.L. - 4/16/2006 5:59:58 AM
        
        re: Just out of further curiousity - Tom Brosz - 4/16/2006 9:02:23 PM
        
        "Were any of the people yelling hate at abortion clinics college professors charged full-time with educating future generations?" - R.L. - 4/17/2006 3:45:18 AM
- Another example - Tom Brosz - 4/15/2006 11:35:54 PM
  - Well, that's just dumb. - Mary Anne - 4/18/2006 1:42:57 AM
    - Oh, I see... - Mary Anne - 4/18/2006 2:28:43 AM
      - Thank you - tony - 4/19/2006 1:45:30 AM
- re: Free speech on the campus - Publius - 4/15/2006 8:07:21 PM
  - Gravity Probe B. Physics department, mostly. - Tom Brosz - 4/15/2006 11:19:56 PM
- It takes all kinds - Donald - 4/15/2006 5:42:13 PM
  - This is a university, and a professor. Does that change anything at all? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/15/2006 6:52:26 PM
    - Not a bit - Donald - 4/15/2006 7:49:12 PM
      - ooops - Donald - 4/15/2006 7:50:00 PM

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