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- From: rhayden@oracle.com (Ronald Hayden)
- Subject: Re: Colorado: My 2 cents
- In-Reply-To: rjwill6@PacBell.COM's message of 18 Nov 92 17:08:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.170826.13842@PacBell.COM> rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams) writes:
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- I haven't seen anything about this here, but I'm informed
- that Colorado was much discussed at last weekend's Creating
- Change conference in LA. The consensus from that gathering
- of ~1500 activists from across the country was that, instead
- of boycotting Colorado, queers should kill the place with
- *niceness*.
-
- [some stuff deleted]
-
- Sounds pretty clever to me, and this strategy would completely
- disarm the opposition, while a boycott would play right into
- their hands...
-
- We should do both. Do good deeds -- work with those who need to be
- helped. But that's what we've always done, and it won't suffice by
- itself.
-
- Pocketbook issues are noticed MUCH faster than good deeds.
-
- As for the whole morality of a boycott thing: I've seen good
- arguments on both sides. But I can't overlook history. In Louisiana,
- David Duke was voted down in large part because the rest of the
- country threatened to turn the state into the backwater it was acting
- like.
-
- Like it or not, boycotts often work. And they work faster than other
- measures. Which means the pain is over quickly, instead of dragging
- on for years.
-
- --
-
- - Ronald Hayden
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