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- From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss,talk.politics.misc,ca.politics
- Subject: Re: Inconsistency re CO boycott
- Message-ID: <38886@hoptoad.uucp>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 14:56:10 GMT
- References: <BOB.92Nov5190157@dolores.Stanford.EDU> <13088@optilink.UUCP>
- Reply-To: laura@hoptoad.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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- Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco
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- In article <13088@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
- >They may be in opposition to a PARTICULAR boycott because:
- >
- >1. It won't work.
- >
- >2. The goal is disreputable (e.g., boycotting a business because
- >it hires black people).
- >
- >3. It hurts the victims more than the oppressors (e.g., South
- >Africa).
- >
- >
- >Boycott is definitely the morally correct way to express your
- >upset. The government is not. Boycotts, however, require a
- >very substantial committment to the goal to work. Adam Clayton
- >Powell, Jr., made very effective use of the boycott to end
- >discrimination in hiring in New York City department stores in
- >the 1930s. It's a shame homosexuals can only think in terms
- >of a great big government, coming in to FORCE people to change.
- >--
- >Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer My opinions, all mine!
- >The Physician Assisted Death Initiative failed. Term limits for Congressmen
- >passed. If only we could have combined the two... two terms, and a doctor
- >does lethal injection...
-
- Why can't you see the homosexuals who do not think in terms of a
- great big government coming in to FORCE people to change? There
- are pleanty of us here.
-
- Count me in on #1 and #3 of your reasons to object to a boycott,
- plus a great distaste that some who don't live in Colorado can
- wax self-righteous about `doing something' by boycotting
- Colorado while our sisters and brothers there can rot, (with
- deepest sympathies, no doubt.)
-
- Better than skiing another place, take the $$ you would have
- spent in Colorado and send it to a group that is either putting
- a new initiative on the ballot, or getting OC-2 declared
- unconstitutional. Now that might be a sacrifice -- no skiing!
-
- Feh!
-
- Boycotts work when they are specifically targetted at exactly
- those who need to change. ``All of Colorado'' is way too
- amorphous for it to work.
-
- Not going to Boulder will destroy those Gay and Lesbian
- Bed&Breakfasts there, though.
-
- Feh.
-
-
-
- --
- Since Ryan White was buried in April 1990, his grave has been vandalized
- *more than* four times.
-
- (this news courtesy Phil Paxton ipwp400@indycms.bitnet)
-
- Laura Creighton
- toad@toad.com
- hoptoad!laura
-