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- From: mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Support the boycott (was Re: Don't boycott all of Colorado)
- Message-ID: <mattm-181192113943@mcmelmon.apple.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 19:54:06 GMT
- References: <Nov15.215505.16307@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1992Nov15.235608.22978@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Nov16.182934.20759@ncar.ucar.edu> <1992Nov18.184447.111980@zeus.calpoly.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov18.184447.111980@zeus.calpoly.edu>,
- dgross@zeus.calpoly.edu (Dave Gross) wrote:
-
- > My reply to this is the following:
- > It's very possible that the reason the large towns
- > and ski areas took such strong action against CO2, and
- > voted against it is BECAUSE they feared a boycott. I'm
- > not sure I'm ready to just put down their support of
- > gay rights to "cosmpolitan sophistication." I suspect
- > they were looking after #1.
-
- A fine load of cynical shit, that. Perhaps a different approach
- is in order: has it occured to the Totalitarian Tinkerbell set
- that a boycott by a faction within a faction that comprises
- perhaps 10% of the total population (in other words, a boycott
- by some single-digit percentage of the population) - won't have
- *SQUAT* impact upon the Colorado economy? Scream 'till your
- tonsils turn pink. It will serve only as 'evidence' of a
- 'homosexual agenda' - and it's complete *lack* of *impact* will
- serve as 'evidence' that the 'homosexual agenda' is nothing
- to be feared.
-
- I suppose the Andersonian Angsters are thinking: yeah, but it
- worked in Arizona, and the threat worked in Louisiana (against
- Duke). NOTHING like the boycott frenzy that went into effect
- against those states has even remotely begun to materialize.
-
- This boycott is *already* a flop. Mr. Williams posted something
- which is far more likely to have an impact - and it is the
- exact *opposite* of what the TT's of soc.motss are calling for.
-
- > Now what happens if no boycott materializes? That's
- > right. These fair-weather gay rights supporters vanish.
- > I support the boycott.
-
- As there was little, if any, threat of boycott <boom> <crash>
- before the vote, I think it *very* unlikely they were concerned
- in the slightest. I have no intention of supporting a boycott,
- as if it even exists.
-
- *X*
-