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Rebecca Hartong  
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 More options Dec 16 1998, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
From: hart...@erols.com (Rebecca Hartong)
Date: 1998/12/16
Subject: Re: letter to AOL, for TOS violation over Xenuu
In article <19981216172028.24204.00000...@ng-fi1.aol.com>, ms...@aol.com
says...

> >The grounds on which the TOS violation ought to have been given is that
> >you were posting to a Scientology fellowship board using a screen name
> >which is offensive to Scientologists *by design.*  

> If that offends them, that is their fault for being
> so easily offended.  

Ha!  I love that kind of reasoning.  If I call you an asshole and you
protest, my response is going to be that it's all your fault for being so
damned easily offended.  ;-)  See?  I can do anything I want!  If anyone
protests-- it's *their* fault!

> Besides, if you ask
> a scieno, they usually disavow Xenu, saying
> it is some lie made up by critics.

So they're not entitled to be offended, huh?  Whether they understand
that Xenu is an actual part of Hubbard's cosmology or not, most of them
still realize that the only reason it's ever brought up in public is to
embarrass and humiliate Scientologists.    

> The intent of Xenuu was satire.

What, pray tell, is the purpose of satirizing someone's "applied
religious philosophy" on their fellowship board-- if not to offend?  
Regardless of your intent (and I sincerely doubt that you didn't know the
Xenuu name would offend Scientologists), the fact that your "satire"
*did* offend ought to show you that it wasn't appropriate for that forum.

>  Not to offend, but if they are so easy to
> offend, sounds like they have a problem, not me

Uh huh.  That's the sort of thing one often hears from the little bullies
on the playground, too.  
--
Rebecca Hartong

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