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- From: mls@panix.com (Michael Siemon)
- Subject: Re: Gays in Military: Powell's phone number
- Message-ID: <C1HrBF.A5L@panix.com>
- Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC
- References: <MJT.93Jan26101028@world.std.com> <1993Jan26.181216.16822@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:38:03 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.181216.16822@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> jmh@gnu.ai.mit.edu
- (Jeffrey M. Hoffmeister) writes:
-
- >I really don't understand General Powell's logic. Isn't he using the
- >same arguements against gays as was used against blacks?
-
- Yep; he says "this is different." Right. Like (he says) blacks were
- ALREADY in the military, and just had to be integrated. (Is the guy
- clueless, or what?)
-
- I am convinced that this is one in which the generational thing is real
- -- the "standard" opinions of those born before WWII is just not shared
- by the younger generation(s). Sure, there are young bigots (we get a
- few here, from time to time :-)), but their stridency is at least in part
- because even THEY see themselves as shrinking in influence. The whole
- military hierarchy is ROTTEN with a smug, macho, anti-woman, homophobic
- agenda which *revolts* a large part of the "under 50s" -- and this is
- true of conservative Republicans, libertarians and other such types as
- much as of honest people like you and me :-)
- --
- Michael L. Siemon "We honour founders of these starving cities
- mls@panix.com Whose honour is the image of our sorrow ...
- They built by rivers and at night the water
- Running past the windows comforted their sorrow."
-