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From: Isaac_K_Rabinovitch@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,soc.women,alt.flame,soc.motss
Subject: Re: A reply to 'Queerboy alert' -- long, but worth reading.
Message-ID: <3162@cup.portal.com>
Date: 13 Feb 88 01:32:24 GMT
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I find most of the responses to the recent verbal Gay and Woman
Bashing by certain immature critics of "Broadcast News" to be
very well taken (especially <400@flatline.UUCP> from Eric Townsend,
who provides us with further evidence that Southerners have learned
more from the last 30 years than the rest of us).

But you should all know that, in this case at least, you're playing
the other guy's game.  Your anger at those electronic Nazis is
appropriate, and you've all expressed it in an intelligent, restrained
manner.  But anger, however expressed, is what these guys want.
Probably they really do hate women, gays, people with brains (probably
just about everybody, including themselves).  But that's not why they
post those messages.  If you read their comments carefully, you'll
realize that they get off on angry and disaproving responses, and
their comments are carefully designed to provoke such responses.

I'm not saying you should just ignore them -- "if enough people
ignore evil" and all that -- I'm just hoping people will keep
their motivation in mind.

Isaac Rabinovitch
isaac.rabinovitch@cup.portal.com
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