RE: real change

[Tom Anderson <slideglide@hotmail.com>]

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Bravo Bravo!!   I'll just leave Andrea's entire point below intact for 
re-reading.  Once again internet child porn is a T.B., which is a reference 
to the Uncle Remus Folklore of the American South. The story is told...

Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear were plotting to catch Br'er Rabbit and cook him up 
in a pot.  They had been foiled so many times, Br'er Bear was getting 
frustrated.  But wiley Br'er Fox, being ever clever, came up with a plan.

"We'll build a little baby out of Tar," sais Br'er Fox.  When Br'er Rabbit 
comes by, he'll get all tangled up in the Tar and get stuck."  So that's 
exactly what Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear did.  They built the Tar Baby and set 
it by the side of the road.  Then they went and hid in the bushes.

So they waited and waited until Br'er Bear smelled Br'er Rabbit coming down 
the road.  "Don't make a sound!" warned Br'er Fox.  Br'er Rabbit came 
whistling down the road & saw someone sitting on a log.  "A fine day to you, 
sir," said Br'er Rabbit to the Tar Baby.  But the Tar Baby didn't say a 
word.

"I said, 'Good Morning to you, sir'", said Br'er Rabbit.  But the Tar Baby 
didn't say a word.  Br'er Rabbit began to get cross.

& I could continue this wonderful story, but you get the jist by now.  Br'er 
Rabbit gets slowly more and more mad with the Tar Baby until he's driven to 
take a swing at it.  His hand gets stuck, he flails, becomes more stuck and 
is eventually caught by Br'er Bear and Br'er Fox.  He escapes with the 
famous reverse psychology ruse of the briar patch.

So there's nothing offensive in the name Tar Baby in it's use against "child 
porn".  The only offensive part is ignorance: a knee jerk reaction devoid of 
thought which aligns Tar Baby with a racial epithet.  If your brain aligns 
the expression Tar Baby with racism it's probably because you are a racist.  
Non-racists think of the story above.


>I think, and still think that censors who are worried about children seeing
>illicit content on the web are a little boofbrained. Kids really don't care
>( I say that from experience)and until they become teenagers most take it a
>fact of life, like gum sticking to your hair or your mother having a fit
>`cause you got all muddy.
>  - I think the issue really was kids actually being the subject of the
>illicit site - which is perverted. I don't really like the idea at all. In
>the country I'm in, kids are being kidnapped and sold ( it's all over the
>news) and it annoys me to no end that people are taking more notice of
>'censoring' what kids see on the net ( what the heck are you protecting 
>them
>from, anyway? They've seen their mothers naked) than the real issues in 
>real
>life.
>Just having a pondering day,
>Andrea


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