Re: "Nigger" causes RAGTIME cancellation!

ElBob-O@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (robert armstrong) wrote in
news:18926-4867AC2A-713@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 

>>"I find this sad and also hilarious," Ragtime lyricist 
>>Lynn Ahrens told Playbill.com June 27. "It seems 
>>to sum up the blind ignorance of people who sit 
>>busily cherry-picking bad words, while not even 
>>bothering to read the script they are producing to 
>>understand its ideas or the context in which these 
>>words are spoken. 
> 
> Not to the point of whether people outside deserve to be
> exposed to this who did not consent to overhear it. For
> comparison, let's say a consenting adult audience were
> watching (artistically justified) full-frontal ****ity in a
> park, and the image were visible to other people walking the
> perimeter of the park area. 
> 

You don't have the right to be free from the risk of being 
offended.

People can be ****: being offended by it is a personal choice.  
Words have no more power than we allow them to have.

-- 
}:-)       Christopher Jahn
{:-(       http://soflatheatre.blogspot.com/

All things are possible, except skiing thru a revolving door.