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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg "Bucket" Woods)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.women,net.motss
Subject: Re: Bigotry
Message-ID: <1038@hao.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Jul-84 12:49:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  5 12:49:44 1984
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  I just want you to know, Alan, that I agree with you 1000%. There is no
valid defense for bigotry. It seems that it's considered OK for minorities
to say bigoted things about whites and/or males, but not the other way
around. I don't like being called a macho asshole by someone who doesn't
even know me, just because I happen to be a white male. Assuming that because
someone is a member of group X, they must exhibit quality Y is the most
basic form of prejudice. The fact that Trish is a lesbian has *nothing* to do
with this issue. The fact that it is a member of a "minority" group being
bigoted against the "majority", doesn't justify it. It is still bigotry and
it still stinks. And it isn't necessary, either. I have known some lesbians
who weren't bigots. I do *not* believe thay are all man-haters. If I did,
then *I* would be guilty of bigotry.
  This whole thing has been clouded over with the (important, but irrelevant) 
issues of gay rights and women's rights. But they are just smokescreens. If 
Lori, Sophie etc. cannot see that this is a simple case of bigotry, then you 
aren't reading what we (Alan, Keith, myself, etc.) are saying. We are not 
objecting to someone being a lesbian, we are objecting to this "generic" hate 
of "most" men, based on a *very* small sample of the total population. It's
time we got rid of this double standard.

--Greg
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