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accom p lice...! must speak o u t!” Portlanders can
take the profit out o f hate, but to do so we must
speak— and continue to speak.
Subtracting ads
To
the
E ditor :
Thank you for the coverage o f the Willamette
Week protest published in the Feb. 2 issue o f Just
O ut [“Protesters Picket Publication”]. I wanted
to share with you and your readers the range o f
business responses to activist concerns over Wil
lamette Week's hate-mongering.
• U .S. Bank, which typically has placed a
half-page ad in Willamette Week, no longer will
advertise in the publication. “We will not be
placing any more product with W illamette
Week," said Karen M cShane o f U .S . Bank’s mar
keting department in a phone conversation
Feb. 8. She expressed U .S . Bank’s appreciation
for being made aware o f the situation.
• Rejuvenation House Parts’ M adelyn Innis,
the employee handling advertising for that firm:
“Thank you for expressing your concern. 1 hap
pened to miss those particular com m ents in Wil
lamette Week, but I too share your concern. I
don’t think they’re very professional at all, and I
expressed our thoughts to the Willamette Week
representative.... Thank you on behalf o f our
company.”
• River C ity Bicycles: “We understand your
concerns and will take them under consideration
when we discuss our future advertising plans.”
• A nd then there are firms that apparently
have not bothered to respond, including N ature’s
Northwest, Qwest and the M ountain Shop.
Ultimately, the responsibility for whether
hate-mongering and espousing violence will be
tolerated in Portland rests with the citizens, for
as Emile Zola wrote in denouncing the French
government’s anti-Sem itic defam ation and per
secution o f Louis Dreyfuss, “ I will not be an
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c o r r e c tio n s
T h e Feb. 2 article “Progress Report” incor
rectly interpreted the Human Rights C a m
paign’s Voter Scorecard. U .S . Sen. Gordon
Sm ith never voted against the Employment
Nondiscrim ination A ct but failed to sign on as a
co-sponsor by the end o f the 106th Congress.
A lso, his work on hate crimes legislation began
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mony F eb . 21, Just Out ask s readers: uEm inem : hate monger or clever satirist1”
S ifra M orrison
J aye S ablan
Eugene
student
Portland
student
“This is my conflict. I
don’t think he should
win. I think he’s a bril
liant wordsmith, but he’s
using his talents in a neg
ative, hateful way.”
T erri K elly
J ordan
Portland
graduate student
Eugene
student
“I’m a proponent of
free speech. I think it’s
important for people
to be able to say what
ever they want. If
anybody gets hurt as a
consequence, that’s another bag o f worms.”
A tto rn ey s
M argaret D eirdre O’H artigan
ju s trrm v H H
MM cohrs tetters la M k edHor
“I don’t believe that
anyone who promotes
bigotry in any way
should be rewarded for
their artistry. I really
don’t think Eminem’s
ongs truly represent our generation.”
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nem’s lyrics are so
hateful, it shouldn’t be
sold to kids. It’s sick stuff. It’s unacceptable.”
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