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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Year of the Queer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.184627.13656@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
- References: <KMEYER.93Jan14132023@solarium.aero.org> <GORDON.93Jan14193735@lugh.think.com> <KMEYER.93Jan15124914@solar <28228@sybase.sybase.com> <KMEYER.93Jan22144624@solarium.aero.org>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 18:46:27 GMT
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- In article <KMEYER.93Jan22144624@solarium.aero.org>
- kmeyer@aero.org (Kraig R. Meyer) writes:
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- ]On 19 Jan 93 19:38:49 GMT, black@sybase.com (Chris Black) said:
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- ]>Why not have such a policy for *all* people who are
- ]>disabled or have serious illnesses? If people with AIDS
- ]>need these benefits, don't other people need them as well?
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- ]I don't know how I feel personally about this. I can see
- ]the argument going that AIDS is fundamentally different from
- ]other disabilities; there's generally a greater stigma,
- ]greater financial burden, greater isolation, etc. attached
- ]to it. I mean, how many parents stop talking to their kids
- ]because they became quadripeligics in a car accident? How
- ]many amputees get their health insurance canceled?
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- Not to gainsay your point about the special circumstances
- PWAs face, lord knows being sick is itself enough of a
- trial, it seems to me a society worth even half its salt
- could manage to do both things with relative ease. I took
- that to be Chris's point.
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