From: wallsj@CS.ColoState.EDU (jeffrey joel walls)
Newsgroups: soc.motss,alt.politics.homosexuality,co.politics,co.general,talk.politics.misc,co.politics.amend2.discuss,boulder.general,csu.general
Subject: Re: Support the boycott (was Re: Don't boycott all of Colorado)
Date: 19 Nov 92 03:12:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: yuma.Nov19.031252.14171
Organization: Colorado State University, Computer Science Department

In article <1992Nov19.023857.20359@tc.cornell.edu> shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore) writes:

>...when African-Americans lose
>their jobs or are denied housing because of their race,
>they have legal recourse.  And *that*, friend, is a 
>direct result of the civil rights movement.

 True enough.  But realize that it took an entire "movement" to 
 achieve this...not just a simple boycott.  By the way, most (and I
 mean MOST) of my black friends in Mississippi prefer the term "black"
 to "African American" because they are no more African than I am
 Norweigan (which is my heritage) and they think it's kind of silly.
 I know that not every (maybe even most) black person around the
 country prefers that, I'm just letting you know that it's not politically
 incorrect to use the term black.  After all, I'm white, not caucasian.
 Words are simply words.  It's the context that makes words bad.  

>What, precisely, would be wrong with someone thinking that
>you're gay?  

 Hm.  I don't know.  I wear an earring and some people (especially in
 the south) will think that I am gay, and that is fine.  I don't
 particularly care what people *think* about me, but you're proud of
 your homosexuality and I'm proud of my heterosexuality.  What is wrong
 with that?  Just because I do NOT support Amendment 2 does NOT mean
 that I support Homosexuality.  In fact, I do not care what people do
 as long as it does not directly affect me.  But Amendment 2 carries a
 bigger punch than just Protected status for homosexuals.  It sets a
 scary precedent.  They could possibly write amendments that would make
 it legal for an employer to fire me because I like the Atlanta Braves,
 or something (I know that's an extreme, but you get the idea).  Back to
 the original point, it doesn't matter, but why would you be offended
 about me *not* putting "Gay $$$" on my money and instead putting "Anti CO 2"
 or something like that?  After all, it's amendment 2 that I don't support.

>If you received a $20 bill with "GAY $$$"
>stamped on it from the bank or as change, what would you do
>with it?  Would you refuse to spend it, lest some grocery
>clerk think that you're (shudder) a homo?

 Well, basically it would be a lie.  If I wrote "Gay $$$" on my money,
 it would imply that I am gay, and I'm not.  If I wrote "I hate gays"
 on my money, and it somehow found it's way to your wallet, what would
 you think or do?  I'm just curious about that, I'm not trying to
 badger you.

 Jeff

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