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- From: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
- Subject: Re: Amnd.2 Boycott is Counterproductive.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.234941.19089@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:49:41 GMT
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- In article <EJH.93Jan21095317@khonshu.colorado.edu> ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett) writes:
- >I think you're missing the real target of the boycott, which is not
- >Colorado, but every other state. Since something like 12 states now
- >have organizations working for something like A2, it seems to me quite
- >possible that a perceived economic hardship in Colorado because of A2
- >will influence the voters and politicians of other states. The smart
- >politicians and businessmen will come out against their local version,
- >claiming that economic hardship will follow.
-
- So, you are supporting the boycott, since it can be used in a rather
- cynical political maneuver in other states? And any benefits or harm
- in Colorado are irrelevant, since you are simply using Colorado is
- a tool for political gains?
-
- >And finally, why should any gay-rights activist care about the
- >individual people of Colorado?
-
- In which case, why should anyone in Colorado care about gays? Perhaps
- a better solution would be each caring about (or at least not
- trying to actively hurt) the other.
-
- >Do you care that the boycott of South
- >America probably hurt plenty of people who never discriminated against
- >blacks, or were working for their benifit?
-
- That was exactly my reason for opposing the South African boycott: It
- hurt the blacks and anti-apartid whites. (In addition to hurting
- the economy in general, which makes/will make life much harder on
- anyone trying to solve that country's problems.)
-
- >There's bound to be innocent
- >victims in any boycott, but that doesn't mean that boycotts shouldn't
- >be used.
-
- I think it does, but I especially object to this attitude that
- hurting innocent poeple is perfectly fine, in the name of a good
- cause. That's exactly what the Crusaders were thinking, when they
- massacared entire cities.
-
- Frank Crary
- CU Boulder
-