Subj : Voigt's Rude Behavior
To   : CURTIS JOHNSON
From : CONSTANCE RAWLEY
Date : Tue Oct 31 2000 02:50 pm

In response to your comment on 10/28: 
 
  
 CJ> I wonder if we'll hear from Constance on this.  A bit off-topic, 
 CJ> perhaps, except as a reminder to look for motivations and 
 CJ> circumstances before passing judgment. 
  
  
 Curtis, 
  
 Joseph Voigt claimed that Henson's reference to hatemongering was 
 "untrue." I rebutted Voigt citing evidence which is strewn about 
 the Matzdobre and Holysmoke Echoes for all to see. 
  
 With regard to your attempt to justify such behavior, allow me to 
 make a suggestion. Read or re-read Kurt Vonnegut's "Mother Night." 
  
 The story's about an expatriate playwright who pretends to be a Nazi 
 collaborator in order to broadcast propaganda containing coded messages 
 to Allied Forces. He eventually realizes that his hate-filled, racist, 
 anti-religious rants served to inspire the elitist Nazi mindset behind 
 the attrocities. Though Vonnegut's story is fiction, it nonetheless 
 makes a relevant point: 
  
 "You must be careful what you pretend to be, because in the end, 
 you are what you pretend to be." 
  
 Voigt's posts are peddling hate. That's what hatemongers do. 
  
  
 Constance 
  
  
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