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  1. Xref: sparky rec.scouting:2759 alt.discrimination:4082 chi.general:932 alt.atheism:16366 alt.politics.homosexuality:5634
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!mycroft
  3. From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
  4. Newsgroups: rec.scouting,alt.discrimination,chi.general,alt.atheism,alt.politics.homosexuality
  5. Subject: Re: BofA and UW can now support discrimination against blacks and Jews
  6. Message-ID: <1992Aug28.085805.11612@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
  7. Date: 28 Aug 92 08:58:05 GMT
  8. References: <1992Aug23.210258.12959@amhux2.amherst.edu> <1992Aug24.174130.17548@spdc.ti.com> <1992Aug24.214806.819@rtsg.mot.com>
  9. Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu
  10. Organization: /etc/organization
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  14. In article <1992Aug24.214806.819@rtsg.mot.com> yorton@rtsg.mot.com
  15. writes:
  16. >
  17. > Thirty years ago there would have been people saying that a black
  18. > man would not have made a good role model.  Why?  Because of bigotry.
  19. > And that is *learned* behavior.
  20.  
  21. How can one assert that sexual orientation is predetermined, but
  22. bigotry is learned?  What's the conceptual difference?  They are both
  23. forms of discrimination, one accepted, the other not.
  24.  
  25. -- 
  26.  \   Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu
  27.  /\  White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!
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