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- From: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
- Subject: Re: Support the boycott (was Re: Don't boycott all of Colorado)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.013217.3546@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:32:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.224948.11472@gordian.com> mike@gordian.com (Michael A. Thomas) writes:
- >> Divine revelation un-necessary, unless you consider the Dallas Gay
- >> News divine revelation. Reference: "Gays, AIDS and You" by Enrique
- >> Rueda page 17. 1983, before blood screening, Robert Schwab, now
- >> dead of AIDS suggested in the Dallas Gay News that all gay males
- >> should give blood, whatever it takes to gain national suupport
- >> for AIDS research; if that includes blood terrorism, so be it.
-
- > If I recall correctly, 1983 was before anybody knew what caused
- >AIDS. It was not known what caused it, and we definitely did not know
- >the vector.
-
- We didn't know for sure, but there was (as I recall) an unproven
- _fear_ that an exchange of blood could cause it.
-
- >Therefore, I can only deduce that your source is a complete
- >fabrication. Also, unless saw the *original* paper, I would doubt the
- >source as well. Bald faced lying is well within the province of morality
- >when fundies start prattling on about gay people.
-
- This sounds, more than anything else, like an excuse to deny you were
- mistaken. He gave a reference: If you think he made it up, why don't
- you go to a library and look it up. Instead, you demand a nearly impossible
- standard of proof (providing you with an original copy), and make wild
- claims about lying. It would seem you are more interested in accusations
- than finding out the facts.
-
- >I'm sure you wouldn't care to be tarred as being another Torquemada,
- >but suggesting that all gay people (or even a signinficant minority)
- >wanted to poison the blood supply is like saying all Christians are
- >bloody murderers.
-
- I haven't seen anyone claim that "all gay people" suggested anything
- of the sort. The assertion was, as I recall, that _some_ gays were
- willing to go to extremes to promote their position, and a (very
- extreme) example was given. In fact, your seem to have intentionally
- ignored a disclamer to that effect.
-
- Frank Crary
- CU Boulder
-
-