Author: Ratko V Tomic
Date: 08:50:06 11/23/00
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>This exact same metaphor came up a couple of years ago. It was >used by Odell Hall, as he explains in a post further down. In >the course of the discussion that emerged, one poster said that >he personally objected to the use of the metaphor because it had >unpleasant associations for him; indeed he had in the past even >gone as far as to change his name because of problems with his >step-father. So, for example, one should never say anything which implies car accidents, job loss, or bizillions other things for which someone may have "unpleasant associations." I have "unpleasant associations" any time I turn on TV news, so when at it, let's shut them up, too? Having lived in a communist country once, I also have lots of "unpleasant associations" any time I hear calls for censorship in here. Why not shut them up, as well?
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