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- From: rkelly@carina.unm.edu (Robert Kelly)
- Subject: Anger, Dworkin and ACT-UP
- Message-ID: <5fprn8b@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 16:44:24 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- References: <1992Dec23.152237.1124@tc.cornell.edu> <1992Dec26.171035.12605@news.acns.nwu.edu> <1hoi7rINN2br@shelley.u.washington.edu>
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- In article <1hoi7rINN2br@shelley.u.washington.edu> rhiann@carson.u.washington.edu (Sandy --not Sandra) writes:
- >
- >It is pretty much a gay truism these days, that radical groups like
- >Act-up are *necessary* to make the more mainstream groups look mainstream,
- >i.e., without ACT-UP, HRCF would look radical to the bible belt.
-
- ASIDE:
- The right did criticize HRCF for not supporting Bush and called
- them "radicals." I forget the source on this one (advocate interview
- I believe--maybe NGLTF conference).
-
- Sorry, I am not an activist so that HRCF and Tim McFeeley can
- assimilate and be "Just like straight people... only gay."
-
- >Without Dworkin, is it possible that women like Daly and Griffin would
- >be too 'radical' to be seriously listened to?
-
- I think this has to do with no culturally-acceptable way to vent anger
- and rage (or grief, for that matter). We hear someone like Dworkin, or
- Petrellis, and think -- "What a angry person"--totally disclaiming what
- they are saying because they can't be nice about it.
-
- I personally believe we need to get rid fo the Anger=Irrationality
- principle and start listening more carefully to someone when they are angry.
-
- If someone listened to ACT-UP years ago, maybe more might have
- been done by now. Who knows?
-
- Robert Kelly
- rkelly@triton.unm.edu
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- Blessed are the censors, for they shall inhibit the earth.
- Yet Another Boring Quote
-