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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Pro-Queer violence
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.125633.6833@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
- References: <1993Jan19.164922.1749@athena.mit.edu> <1993Jan19.224047.23735@reed.edu> <18432@autodesk.COM>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 12:56:33 GMT
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- In article <18432@autodesk.COM> owen@autodesk.com (D. Owen
- Rowley) writes:
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- >>The thought that I'd lose control and beat the face off of
- >>a homophobe scared me more than the thought that I'd get
- >>hurt.
-
- >No offense Nelson, but this sounds like a dodge to me.
-
- It struck me not as a dodge, but as an indicator of the
- scale of rage pent up within us by social oppression that
- seeks any means of disempowering us. I believe it helps us
- avoid becoming murderers ourselves that we can be in contact
- with feeling (including fear) capable of great violence.
-
- >No, QN is the American version of the PRC's cultural
- >revolution. By its nature it must be a short lived
- >phenomenon.
-
- I agreed with nearly everything else you said, but apart
- from being short-lived, I don't think QN has anything in
- common with the Cultural Revolution, neither in motive,
- effect, nor historical significance.
-
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