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queerbychoice) wrote2002-03-01 06:38 pm
queerbychoice) wrote2002-03-01 06:38 pm
Bumper Stickers!
My official First Bumper Sticker Ever arrived in the mail today. It says:
I bought it here. I also bought "END SANCTIONS ON IRAQ NOW", "QUESTION GENDER", "QUEER: bold or daring, brave, original, unrestrained by existing conventions, uninhibited", and a set of politically-themed magnetic poetry. But I haven't applied the other bumper stickers yet, because I want to spend time contemplating whether, which, and where I want to apply any others. So the Abbie Hoffman is the first, because I knew exactly where I wanted to put it (right in the center).
I am happy. My car is beautiful.
You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.Actually I think "democracy" is the wrong word, because I'm not that big a fan of "democracy" and I certainly don't equate the term with fairness. But Abbie Hoffman said "democracy" and I think that will suffice to get the basic message across.Abbie Hoffman
I bought it here. I also bought "END SANCTIONS ON IRAQ NOW", "QUESTION GENDER", "QUEER: bold or daring, brave, original, unrestrained by existing conventions, uninhibited", and a set of politically-themed magnetic poetry. But I haven't applied the other bumper stickers yet, because I want to spend time contemplating whether, which, and where I want to apply any others. So the Abbie Hoffman is the first, because I knew exactly where I wanted to put it (right in the center).
I am happy. My car is beautiful.
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(Anonymous) 2002-03-03 04:37 am (UTC)(link)Why should I go and find a worthier cause to gripe about? You seem to want to deny this particular dissident the freedom that the bumper sticker purported to give me in the first place. Not much of a democracy, is it?
If people are going to force information onto others from their rear ends, where they themselves are not forced to look, then the data/information ought to fulfil at least a sufficient number of the following criteria to make it worthy of display, that it is: (a) correct (b) logical (c) not annoying (d)of actual use to the recipient (d) not likely to cause an argument or annoyance within the vehicle following (e) not wasting people's time (f) possibly, amusing and/or enlightening. This particular bumper-sticker fails to meet the grade on this sort of test. This is my gripe. Accept or reject the point as you wish.