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On 12 Nov 2006 04:01:57 -0800, tedorn44@hotmail.com wrote:

>
>George Washington Admirer wrote:
>> Absolutely fascinating: A Los Angeles Jewess moves to North Carolina
>> and within weeks is demanding that the locals don't have a right to
>> sell or wear a T-shirt addorned with the VERY innocuous phrase
>> "Confederately Correct - Civil Rights for Southern Whites."
>>
>>   As a white American of European heritage from a working-class New
>> York City background who's been discriminated against due to his race
>> *since* *childhood*, I nevertheless have never tried to deny the right
>> of free speech to those I've seen (on many hundreds of occasions,
>> moreover) wearing T-shirts blaring *truly* racist (anti-white)
>> sentiments.
>>
>>   In Los Angeles, the city from which Ms. Bernstein -- the shrill,
>> "politically correct" recent transplant to North Carolina profiled
>> below -- hails I've seen scores and scores of T-shirts adorned with
>> statements such as "La Raza"; "Mexican Power"; "Por La Raza todo, por
>> ellos fuera de La Raza nada" ("For The Race everything, for those
>> outside The Race nothing"); "It's a Black Thang" etc. etc. Were I to
>> ever publically and ostentatiously object to anyone wearing/selling
>> such tee shirts I would have to consider the possibility of being
>> prosecuted for having committed a "hate crime" or perpetrated a
>> "bias-motivated incident."
>>
>>   Funny, but I don't recall ever having read of Ms. Bernstein, when she
>> was still living in her native L.A., raising hell about any of the
>> types of T-shirts described above as she did in her new home after
>> seeing the comparatively innocent statement "Civil Rights for Southern
>> Whites" on a tee shirt.
>>
>>   It seems it's just fine in post-America America for white Americans
>> to be serially discriminated against on account of race in employment,
>> education, government and private loans and just about every other
>> important area of life . . . but God forbid one of those *being*
>> *discriminated* *against* merely offers for sale a T-shirt expressing a
>> relatively innocuous desire NOT to be granted special race-based
>> preferences but merely that their own Constitutionally-guaranteed civil
>> rights be recognized and respected: in that case, expect people such as
>> the "political correctness" nazi Ms. Bernstein to call you a "hater"
>> and to dispute your right to express your desire for justice.
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Woman jailed in battle to have slogan T-shirt removed from fair
>>
>> She viewed design as promoting racism
>>
>> BY YVONNE M. WENGER
>> The Post and Courier
>>
>> Deanna Bernstein of Summerville wanted to spend a night at the Coastal
>> Carolina Fair eating the food and enjoying the rides and playing the
>> games. Instead, she ended up in jail.
>>
>> When Bernstein passed a vendor selling a T-shirt Wednesday with
>> Confederate flags and the words "Confederately Correct Civil Rights for
>> Southern Whites," her stomach turned.
>>
>> Bernstein said the T-shirt promotes racism. In fighting to have it
>> removed, she was charged with trespassing.
>>
>> "If people don't like it, then complain, use your voice," said
>> Bernstein, 38, a California native who is white.
>>
>> She asked the vendor to remove the shirt and complained to fair
>> management. When the T-shirt wasn't put away, a friend bought one for
>> Bernstein and she stood outside the fair gates with the T-shirt in hand
>> to ask people coming in what they thought about it.
>>
>> In the 10 minutes Bernstein said she stood there, she said most people
>> were complacent about it but some who passed her said they liked the
>> shirt.
>>
>> "What I see is the adults are perpetuating all of this," Bernstein
>> said. "These children are going by and they see the T-shirt and they
>> think hatred is OK. How could anything change?"
>>
>> Charleston County sheriff's deputies asked Bernstein to leave. When she
>> didn't, she was arrested on a trespassing charge and fined $440, and
>> she said she spent about eight hours in the county detention center.
>>
>> Bernstein said she was confused by the arrest because she had paid
>> admission and was not disruptive.
>>
>> Chip Boling, president of the Coastal Carolina Fair, said Bernstein was
>> well-mannered, but he said she was asked six times to leave for
>> violating the fair's policy against expressing political views on the
>> private property.
>>
>> "The reason she was arrested was because she refused to leave the
>> grounds," Boling said. "She was advised she was trespassing. It was an
>> unfortunate thing, but it was her choice."
>>
>> Likewise, Boling said fair security asked people distributing campaign
>> literature to leave the grounds throughout the 10-day fair that ended
>> Saturday. He said in his 20 years with the fair, he knows of no other
>> similar arrests. Boling said the fair respects individuals' rights to
>> personal beliefs and would not take a position on the T-shirt.
>>
>> The Charleston County Sheriff's Office could not provide a copy of the
>> arrest report. A spokesman declined to comment until a report was
>> available for him to review.
>>
>> The American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina supports the free
>> speech rights of Bernstein and the vendor, spokeswoman Barbara Joslin
>> said. But private property owners have a right to decide exactly what
>> takes place on their land, she said.
>>
>> Dot Scott, president of the Charleston branch of the National
>> Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said she would not
>> take a position on whether the T-shirt was in good taste. However,
>> Scott said if she had seen the T-shirt she probably would not have
>> objected in the same way. "I probably have thick skin, because I am so
>> used to seeing it," she said.
>>
>> Scott said her concern is that the fair's policy is written and equally
>> applied to all attendees and whether a written policy addresses what
>> merchandise is prohibited.
>>
>> Boling said the policy against political expression is not written but
>> is a long-standing practice that is equally applied. In regard to what
>> vendors can sell, Boling said the fair's unwritten practice is to
>> prohibit merchandise with profanity or pornography. "Obviously, we may
>> be looking at it further to see if it is something we need to do,"
>> Boling said of any potential vendor limitations.
>>
>> Bernstein said she did not believe the vendor had the right to sell the
>> shirts, because she said it was offensive and inappropriate for
>> children to see. "The more people generalize, the more people hate, the
>> more divided the cultures are going to be," said Bernstein, who moved
>> from Los Angeles nine weeks ago. "It is so ugly here in the South."
>>
>> Bernstein said she does not have a record of protesting but felt it was
>> her duty to speak up about the T-shirt for her 15-month-old son. "I am
>> raising a child and what kind of mother would I be if I didn't fight to
>> change something as gross as this?" Bernstein said.
>>
>> After seeing what she perceives as racism in the area, Bernstein said
>> she plans to move as soon as she can afford it. She wants the fair's
>> management to apologize and drop the charge. She also wants the
>> managers to provide fair staff with diversity training and have a booth
>> at next year's fair that promotes multiculturalism. She said she
>> contacted all the fair's sponsors to ask them to consider the situation
>> when giving future support.
>>
>> Boling said he does not know why the fair should apologize. "We tried
>> not to send her to jail," he said.
>>
>> The fair's objective is to retain a family-friendly atmosphere that
>> improves the community by providing donations to organizations
>> throughout the Lowcountry for program costs, Boling said.
>>
>> Photo of Ms. Bernstein accompanies article at website:
>> http://www.charleston.net/assets/webPages/departmental/news/Stories.aspx
>> ?section=localnews&tableId=117415&pubDate=11/7/2006
>>
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>
>Incident occured in South Carolina. Same Jewess.
>
>ted

What it really boils down to is that woman doesn't really believe in
free speech.