[lg policy] Policy on disagreeable messages

[Harold Schiffman]

Dear members,

I thank all those of you who have responded on this issue, all of whom
have been supportive of continuing to send messages,
even "offensive" ones, as a way to ensure that we know what we are
dealing with "out there" and that we won't get
complacent about sentiments we do not agree with.  I currently have a
disclaimer at the end of all messages I send,
in which people are encouraged to post a rejoinder if they disagree
with something.  I would like to amend this to
recommend in addition that if members disagree with, say, a message
from the British National Party, or from the English
Only people, that they write to those people, and register their
discontent with them directly.  A copy of that message
could be forwarded to this list, just so we know about it.

Yours,

Hal Schiffman

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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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