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- From: mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Mike Reaser)
- Subject: Re: Attention Skiers Boycotting Colorado
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:41:09 GMT
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- In <1ht3imINN505@hp-col.col.hp.com> smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith) writes:
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- >You're doing a fine imitation of a rock, I'll say. Where did the 'quotas'
- >thing come from? I've gone over and over that in numerous posts. It is
- >IN THE AMENDMENT. And its being in there is a main reason it passed.
- >That is what I am saying. I am NOT saying that gays DO want quotas, or
- >that quotas existed in the past;
-
- NOT! You've said it repeatedly, and also insisted that the "minority/quota"
- thing is what I wanted. Nothing could be further from the truth.
-
- >what I am saying is that because of the
- >frequent comparisons by gays to blacks, people can be led to believe that
- >gays want quotas. That is what happened; that is why the writers of #2
- >put the 'Q' word in the amendment, and that is why it passed. I'm not
- >saying it is good, I'm not saying it is right, I'm saying IT IS. If you
- >have a problem with that, I don't know what I can say to make you
- >feel better. You just seem intent on ranting for the sake of it.
-
- As do you. I've responded to Walter in e-mail, and apologize to the
- motss community for wasting the bandwidth.
-
- BBC put it best: all the Equal Opportunity policies in world are useless
- if the _law_ doesn't allow you to use them. And that's what Amendment 2
- does.
-
- Why is that so hard for so many to see?
-
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