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- From: glambert@pyramid.com (George Lambert)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
- Subject: Re: Special rights to deadheads?
- Message-ID: <184389@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 02:44:50 GMT
- References: <Nov19.182910.78416@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <184362@pyramid.pyramid.com> <1992Nov23.194704.8065@nmsu.edu>
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- Organization: Pyramid Technology
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- In article <1992Nov23.194704.8065@nmsu.edu> dsteinbe@nmsu.edu (David Steinberg) writes:
- >In article <184362@pyramid.pyramid.com> glambert@pyramid.com (George
- >Lambert) writes:
- > (orginial article deleted)
- >>
- >>Well, Bret, this is a somewhat specious comparison. I face no threat of
- >>being denied work, housing, or expression of my more amorous tendencies
- >>in public because I'm a deadhead. Gays do. Many other groups do, also.
- >>
- >>Favorite musical groups do not invite the bigotry that sexual orientation,
- >>religion, or skin color invite among large sections of our very backward
- >>thinking society. If you don't realise that, you are certainly very naive.
- >
- > I don't know about that. Did you try going to the Ontario shows.
- >Both Canada and the United States ripped apart my car trying to find
- >drugs. Of course at a campground near the Capitol Centre I was body
- >searched because I ate a pixie stick. Of course, they've been known
- >to trample people with horses at the Captiol Centre. BTW did I
- >mention Adam Katz? Oh, and what about the hotel that wouldn't rent to
- >us in Detriot even though there were a dozen cars in the lot at 2 AM?
- >Need I go on????
- >
- I'm aware that this stuff happens. It's not because you're a deadhead
- per se, there could be a few other factors involved. Not that the
- behavior you mention isn't reprehensible, but I will still maintain that
- descrimination because you like some form of music is nothing compared to
- descrimination caused due to race, religion, or sexual orientation.
-
- Do you seriously think you are put-upon because of the Dead?????
-
- George Lambert
-