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- From: spencer@der.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun)
- Subject: To whom DOES Walter listen?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.090622.1954@Princeton.EDU>
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- Reply-To: spencer@phoenix.princeton.edu (S. Spencer Sun)
- Organization: Live Organ Transplants
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 09:06:22 GMT
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- Starting a new thread because the old one had split off into too many
- other discussions and was getting to be of unmanageable siz, IMO.
- (Someone please tell me in if this belonged in a.p.h instead.)
-
- In article <1i09acINNiai@hp-col.col.hp.com>, smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith) writes:
- >anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
- >> Now what reaction do you expect to get from us, Walter, to
- >> what amounts to massive rudeness on your part?
- >
- >Like I said, there is a *large* gap...and obviously I have
- >no clue on how to try and cross it.
- >
- >[...]
- >
- >Even better...I just HATE to see negative stereotypes so boldly
- >fulfilled. If I'm insulting anyone, it is out of ignorance.
- >But for people here, arrogance, bad manners, and filthy language
- >almost seem a badge of honor. And *you* have the GALL to accuse
- >me?
- >
- >> As Bob Donahue
- >> quite calmly remarked, it's put-up or shut-up time, buddy.
- >
- >What exactly do you want me to "put up"? Nothing, from what I can
- >see. You mean either agree with you or shut up. The longer
- >I read this group, the more I understand the wall between gays
- >and straights that you rail against so much. Somebody doesn't
- >take what you say at face value, without question, and you resort
- >to cursing them and filthy language; and you wonder why people end
-
- Uh, wait a second (screeeeech). You have, time and time again,
- willingly acknowledged your ignorance of things motss (for the record, I
- am not significantly more knowledgeable myself, being that I haven't
- been out that long and am out to only some close friends at this point).
- Yet you accuse soc.motssers of being sniffy because you refuse to take
- what they say at face value.
-
- Whose words WILL you take at face value? If you take your car to a
- mechanic and s/he says you need X done, or if you go to your doctor and
- they tell you you have Y and need some procedure performed, do you
- accept what they say, or do you act like you've been acting here? If
- you happen to be a car buff or read medical texts in your spare time,
- then substitute something else, I'm sure there's an appropriate analogy
- for ANY person because NO ONE is that good at everything essential in
- life.
-
- -----
- sss/PU'94 Dept of CS (spencer@phoenix.princeton.edu)/JvNCnet (spencer@jvnc.net)
- "Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up."
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