Re: ans. to Mark re censoring the extreme

[MWBRYANT@aol.com]

Matt Stannard,

Are you really telling us that censorship of child pornography is capitalist
power manipulation?

And some folks think I've watched too many X-File episodes....

Bear, in rainy Eugene


In a message dated 97-03-06 14:05:10 EST, Stannard writes:

<< To "censor" the extreme is the call of "law and order liberalism"
 as well as conservatism.  This is where the convergence of ruling
 class ideology becomes most apparent.  Unfortunately, a lot
 of good, potentially liberating discourse becomes swallowed
 up in the call to expand state intrusions (witness feminists favoring
 censorship of pornography, or calling for the reversal of the burden
 of proof in sex crime cases).
 
 As long as the state is a ruling class state, that is, as long as
 it exists to preserve and is upheld by the privileged class(es),
 its "police" expansion even for abstractly worthy causes is
 suspect.  If the ruling class CAN find a way to censor radical
 or threatening speech, it eventually WILL.
 
 matt stannard >>

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