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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Pro-Queer violence
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.144644.5891@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
- References: <1993Jan19.164922.1749@athena.mit.edu> <1993Jan21.125633.6833@macc.wisc.edu> <18459@autodesk.COM>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 14:46:44 GMT
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- In article <18459@autodesk.COM> owen@autodesk.com (D. Owen
- Rowley) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan21.125633.6833@macc.wisc.edu>,
- >anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
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- >>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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- >The things I see in common are methodological, and
- >stylistic.
-
- I see your point, but mine was that the parallel was
- probably pretty loose. Your main point -- short duration --
- was not loose, of course.
-
- >An emphasis on slogans and street action. A tendency for
- >high emotional involvement to push the boundarys of
- >acceptable tactics, sometimes too far (ie: scapegoating,
- >getting mired in process)
-
- "Pushing the boundaries" in the instance of China's Cultural
- Revolution is speaking lightly of murder, mayhem, the
- wanton destruction of artifacts of high cultural value,
- book-burning, and other fascist mob violence. I'm glad that
- Queer Nation was not parallel in any of those senses.
-
- >I am very much in favor of QN, and feel that our movement
- >towards equality is benefited by their timely existence.
-
- I'm certainly with you on that one.
-
- <> Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
- <> -- Aldous Huxley
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