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- From: rhayden@oracle.com (Ronald Hayden)
- Subject: Re: Military info needed
- In-Reply-To: xtkmg@trentu.ca's message of 16 Nov 92 16:42:40 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:16:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.164240.26011@trentu.ca> xtkmg@trentu.ca (Kate Gregory) writes:
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- In article <1992Nov16.150919.12835@pixel.kodak.com> chuck@fourier.ssd.kodak.com (Charles S. Collins 726-9461) writes:
- >It was a powerful piece, including an unbelievable scene where two homophobes
- >(married man and woman) were accosting her in a parking lot. The woman
- >screamed at Margaret saying, "My husband fought in two wars to protect us
- >from people like YOU!" And Margaret calmly replied, "No, he didn't fight
- >against people like me."
-
- My husband watched that segment with me. He was stunned by the woman
- in the parking lot, who was yelling that "you people are trying to
- ruin this country" and so on. He asked me later what on earth makes
- people so scared and so hateful. I think it was the first time he
- really realized, in his gut, that there is a level of discrimination
- that is more than just
- politely firing a person or impersonally not voting for them, a
- level that involves yelling stupid things in parking lots, a level
- that can cross the line to violence easily.
-
- Actually, what the woman yelled was even more disturbing. She first
- yelled, "You are trying to ruin this country. The country I'd give my
- life for!"
-
- Margaret said, "I almost did give my life for it, ma'am".
-
- The woman's response? "I wish you had!"
- --
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- - Ronald Hayden
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