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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Private antidiscrimination policies in CO (was Re: Attention...)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.015647.13236@macc.wisc.edu>
- Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
- References: <1992Dec31.224652.4312@macc.wisc.edu> <1i055cINNh36@hp-col.col.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 01:56:47 GMT
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- In article <1i055cINNh36@hp-col.col.hp.com>
- smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith) writes:
-
- >Well, I've said *more* than enough...if people want me out, I'll
- >hit the road.
-
- Bye bye.
-
- >I've been thinking about it anyways, since I'm
-
- Actually, you haven't been thinking about it at all; you
- only think you have.
-
- >getting the impression the walls are so high between gays and
- >straights that any dialog (where openly different views are
- >shared) is pretty hopeless; judging by the reaction I've seen
- >myself and others get. The things people have *assumed*
- >I think, based on other things I've said, really shocked me.
-
- You know, Walter, some of the people who regularly post here
- are straight, and they don't run into any of what you've run
- into. The difference, reluctant as you may be to entertain
- the notion, lies with your attitude. You go away now,
- there's a good boy, and you think long and hard about all
- this, say for maybe ten years. Try to meet and actually
- hang out with lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. Get to
- know them as people. Do some community work to lessen
- homophobia in your workplace, in the society at large. Get
- some first-hand experience of our world. Then maybe you
- will be ready to *begin* to understand. So far, you're just
- another oppressor, and I suspect few here will be sorry to
- see you go.
-
- >Well, let's hear what people want; cast your votes. If the
- >"get outs" outnumber the "stays", or even if there is just
- >a lot of "get outs", I'm outta here. (sound of applause
- >rises from the background) Please keep the votes posted
- >under this subject heading, or under their own single heading,
- >so they are easy to find, and so those who just plain don't
- >want to be bothered with all this can use their kill file...
-
- Don't tell us how to run our lives, Walter. This newsgroup
- is not for you. It's time you ran along.
-
- --
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