At 10:20 PM 12/11/1996, Matthew J. Miszewski wrote:
(Let me add that remailers are great. I would be reluctant to express these ideas in any other way for professional reasons.)
hehehe.
Actually, there's nothing funny about the suppression of free speech. What I fear is being dragged into a baseless "discrimination" lawsuit if I should ever hire somebody from a "protected class" and find that their employment needs to be terminated. Note that the "protected classes" constitute the overwhelming majority of the US population.
(Those who don't believe me should get "Love Supreme" by John Coltrane and listen to it carefully about 20 times. There are layers and
And what was it that Bird's contemporary society called him? Was it crazy? This is one of the social ills potentially caused by discrimination. Far more important to me than the politics of any time is the music that a time period presents. But this visionary jazz musician was all but discredited by the musical environment of the times. Thankfully, it survived on its merits. But imagine if the campaign to discredit Coltrane had been successful and my young ears never experienced that beauty. That is part of the potential harm I am talking about.
Is this a joke? How can we pass a law telling people to like somebody's music? Respect cannot be legislated. It must be earned. Red Rackham
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