Re: Don't you love me Daisy?

[bill london <london@moscow.com>]

Nate: I am disgusted that someone would try to kick you off this list.  The
purpose of this list is dialog and community.  Not uniformity or
blacklisting.
I am sorry this feeble and funky act of censorship was attempted, but glad
that the effort has failed.
BL

Nate Wilson wrote:

> Well, my innocence is shattered. I question my faith in the god of
> tolerance. I may even blaspheme her later if I get really worked up. It
> turns out that three postings is all it takes to close an open mind.
>     Some friend of mine out there tried to be tricky with a computer and
> put in an unsubscription request on my behalf.
>
> >You have been removed from the list
>
> >Transcript of unsubscription request follows:
> --
> >From natewilson@moscow.com
> >From: vision2020-request@moscow.com
> >Reply-To: natewilson@moscow.com
> >To: vision2020-request@moscow.com
> >Subject: unsubscribe natewilson@moscow.com
>
>     I'm not sure which is greater, the intolerance, or the incompetence
> of the thing. My removal notice was followed by one that read:
>
> >You have not been removed, I couldn't find your name on the list.
>
>    While perhaps I should wipe my sweaty brow in sheer relief that my
> excommunication did not go through. Instead, I am hurt. I am super,
> super hurt. I grieve at the insensitivity. There is no enviable seat in
> the tent of tolerance for me. "They don't like me." I say to myself,
> with hanging head. "Why can't they just accept me for who I am?" Is it
> because I'm Jewish? Scottish? Black? Is this the hate-crime of some
> lonely, unloved ethnocentrist?
>     You people are fun.
>
> Nate