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- From: woods@claven.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
- Subject: Re: ?? Colorado Boycott ??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.160016.19015@claven.ucar.edu>
- Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR Boulder, CO
- References: <1992Nov13.162439.8028@col.hp.com> <1992Nov17.055933.17706@colorado.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:00:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.055933.17706@colorado.edu> youngm@mica.Colorado.EDU (Matthew Young) writes:
- >I cannot think of a more civil (effective) way of protesting than
- >an economic boycott. It is unfortunate that such a boycott may
- >hurt the wrong people.
-
- Unfortunate??? It makes the whole thing into a travesty and a joke
- if the wrong people are targeted. Reminds me of the third grade
- teacher who would punish everybody when she didn't know who had
- done something, to make sure that the guilty party had to suffer.
- Never mind that the 95% of innocents had to suffer too. That didn't
- make sense then and it still doesn't. There are more effective
- methods than a statewide boycott, as appealing as that is on
- an emotional level. Contributing to the groups that are fighting
- this in the courts would be more directly effective, and not hurt
- the wrong people. There are a number of gay rights groups involved,
- and also the ACLU of Colorado.
-
- --Greg
-