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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!boulder!youngm
- From: youngm@mica.Colorado.EDU (Matthew Young)
- Subject: Re: ?? Colorado Boycott ??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.043607.19514@colorado.edu>
- Originator: youngm@mica
- Sender: youngm@mica (Matthew Young)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: mica.colorado.edu
- Reply-To: youngm@mica.Colorado.EDU (Matthew Young)
- Organization: Center for Study of Earth from Space, U of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <1992Nov13.162439.8028@col.hp.com> <1992Nov17.055933.17706@colorado.edu> <1992Nov17.160016.19015@claven.ucar.edu>
- Distribution: co
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 04:36:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.160016.19015@claven.ucar.edu>, woods@claven.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) writes:
- |>Newsgroups: co.politics
- |>Path: boulder!csn!ncar!claven!woods
- |>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>
- |>Distribution: co
- |>Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 09:00:16 GMT-0:10
- |>
- |>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
- |>
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- I'm sure that no one would intentionally inflict a boycott on
- people who voted against 2, but there's no way to tell the
- difference. Either way, people are free to do what they want
- with their own money. It's up to *us* to put an end to the
- boycott by putting an end to 2.
-
- mY
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