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- From: rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: EE statements (was: Re: Attention Skiers Boycotting Colorado)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.002503.10696@spdcc.com>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 00:25:03 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.194838.29120@spdcc.com> <1hvkndINNarf@hp-col.col.hp.com>
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- smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith) writes:
- >rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue) writes:
- >> OK, Walter, no flak: please share with us the letter
- >> you sent to the HR division at HP encouraging them to start
- >> allowing gay and lesbians spouses have all the same privs as
- >> heterosexual sposuses... Maybe some of us can use it in letters
- >> we're writing for your own companies...
-
- >Did I say I wrote any letter to HR?
-
- Well no sane person would come on here telling us what
- we should or should not do without having done *some* legwork on
- their own. No one who wasn't a hypocrite would come on here
- and bray about how things ought to be without actually practicing
- what he preached...
-
- >Did I say I had the answers
- >on how to get it accomplished?
-
- You certainly have a lot of *opinions*, Walter, it's too
- bad you don't have the backbone to back them up with.
-
- >Nope. I don't understand why you
- >have to take such a rediculous attitude like that, Bob. *If* I
- >could offer them a proven way to do it, that has worked in
- >other places, that the company could take seriously, I'd do it.
-
- Fine, then let's write that letter shall we?
-
- >But I don't have that. But your thought of having people share
- >the ideas they do have to help each other is good.
-
- What good is sharing ideas amopng the converted? What
- IS needed is for some people who have the privs and the perks (that's
- you Walter) to have the cojones to actually stick his neck out
- and publically speak his mind -NOT to the people who already know
- it (that's us Walter), but to the people who need to hear it most
- (that would be the HR dept. at HP for example)... If you're not
- going to *do* anything but wheeze *at* us, then go away. We
- need allies. That's not someone who is all talk and no action.
-
- >Walter
-
- Yes, we know --- you're almost a prototype.
-