[Peace-discuss] Hip-hop billboards

[C. G. Estabrook]

I asked Aaron explicitly in the meeting if he wanted the cartoon censored.
He said he did and repeated that answer when I asked him again after the
meeting.  He also repeated his example: if the paper could pull the strip
when it criticized Bush, he said, it could also do that when it used
inappropriate words.

Had the billboards been an attack on hip-hop as some of our colleagues
thought, should AWARE have demanded their removal? Seeking to suppress
offensive speech is a principal IP diversion, it seems to me.  --CGE

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Morton K.Brussel wrote:

> I am not aware that there was a call to banish the offending(?)  
> objects, i.e., censorship, although such an inference was initially
> present. The ensuing remarks by Aaron did not call for a request to
> the N-G to censor the strip as far as I can recall.
> 
> As to the billboard, the discussion relieved some of the antagonism to
> it.  Vive la discussion! mkb
>