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- From: mike@gordian.com (Michael A. Thomas)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Support the boycott (was Re: Don't boycott all of Colorado)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.003751.15111@gordian.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 00:37:51 GMT
- References: <Nov15.215505.16307@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1992Nov15.235608.22978@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Nov16.182934.20759@ncar.ucar.edu> <1992Nov18.184447.111980@zeus.calpoly.edu> <mattm-181192113943@mcmelmon.apple.com>
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- In article <mattm-181192113943@mcmelmon.apple.com>, mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon) writes:
- > A fine load of cynical shit, that. Perhaps a different approach
- > is in order: has it occured to the Totalitarian Tinkerbell set
- > that a boycott by a faction within a faction that comprises
- > perhaps 10% of the total population (in other words, a boycott
- > by some single-digit percentage of the population) - won't have
- > *SQUAT* impact upon the Colorado economy? Scream 'till your
- > tonsils turn pink. It will serve only as 'evidence' of a
- > 'homosexual agenda' - and it's complete *lack* of *impact* will
- > serve as 'evidence' that the 'homosexual agenda' is nothing
- > to be feared.
-
- This is not necessarily so. A boycott does not need to be all
- encompassing or numerically widespread to get its point across.
- A convention here, a superbowl there mixed liberally with
- media are all the necessary ingredients to get people to
- take notice.
-
- > This boycott is *already* a flop. Mr. Williams posted something
- > which is far more likely to have an impact - and it is the
- > exact *opposite* of what the TT's of soc.motss are calling for.
-
- I would say that the rumors of its death are greatly exaggerated.
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- Michael Thomas (mike@gordian.com)
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