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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
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Subject: Re: Times of Harvey Milk
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Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 12:06:31 EDT
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I hereby apologize to Stephen Hutchison & Robert Orenstein for the
personal insults & generally offensive tone of my replies to their
postings.

However, I don't concede the points I made, & I still think that
homophobia informs their interest & opinion on Dan White, however
much they may deplore this as an ad hominem attack.

I'd like to note here the resurgence of an aggressive conservative
revisionism that has targeted gay figures/ideas/events as well as
others in often crude & prejudiced attempts to "debunk myths",
attempts that often heavily rely on the ignorance of the public
or the omission of obvious or compelling issues or facts.

Messers Hutchison & Orenstein probably aren't conservatives &
would decry the label revisionist, but their postings struck me
as part of the tide of revisionism from the right that's current.
My perceptions may be awry.

I haven't read Mike Weiss's book on the White trial, but I wonder
whether Weiss concurs with Robert Orenstein that White killed
Milk only out of political reasons & not homophobia?  Municipal 
assassination is rare in the US, but homophobic city workers,
paranoid cops & firemen, dirty politics, & personal conflicts
between city politicians aren't at all.  The unusually brutal
slayings in City Hall in 1978 suggest an unusual cause/motive/
factor: homophobia, achieving focus by the presence of an openly
gay & aggressive elected official.

Once again, my apologies for my rather vicious & ugly attacks on
Mr. Orenstein & Hutchison.  

					Regards,
					Ron Rizzo