Re: "Nigger" causes RAGTIME cancellation!

Christopher Jahn wrote:
> ElBob-O@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (robert armstrong) wrote in
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> 
>>> "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.

But the management of a public park *do* have the right not to mount an 
outdoor entertainment that they (however misguidedly) fell may cause 
offence.

Which doesn't excuse the way this has been handled, which - as I just 
said somewhere else - has been thoroughly incompetent.


-- 

Stephen

Have you tried jamming your head in the tumble-drier and switching on?