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Re: Redlining
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