[Vision2020] The "Flyer" --

Andreas Schou ophite at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 07:45:29 PST 2007


Gary --

If you're gay (the person in question is), it certainly makes sense to
attempt to deny people a living who want to deny you a living in the
most literal sense possible.

-- ACS

On 11/6/07, g. crabtree <jampot at roadrunner.com> wrote:
>
>
> Mr. Schou fatuously explains:
>
> "The "flyer," as Gary calls it, is, first of all, not a "flyer." It
> doesn't intend to inform anyone other than people already intending on
> boycotting the businesses in question."
>
> With that in mind why go to the trouble, expense, and risk to job of
> creating it, reproducing it, and distributing it. Why list the specious,
> ginned up reasons for the authors lack of tolerance on one side if it's only
> going to the similarly closed minded?
>
> "Second, although it was (I
> assume) produced by a co-op employee, if it was produced by the person
> I think it was, it wasn't produced with any sort of official co-op
> imprimatur."
>
> I never said it was. While I personally don't shop at the Co-op, my wife
> does and will most assuredly continue to. I very much like Kenna Eaton, the
> general manager, as well as most of the employees that I have met. The Co-op
> was our next door neighbor for several years and I enjoyed having then
> around. A big part of the point here is that just because you disagree with
> a groups ideology doesn't mean you have to hate it's members and try to deny
> them a living. That said, it's a little hard to believe that a (fill in your
> preferred term here) was being distributed from the check out area with
> nobody else being aware of what was going on.
>
> "Third, if it was produced by the person I think it was,
> this wouldn't be the first time the Kirk had tried to get her fired
> from a job for being a critic of theirs."
>
> I think we can safely ignore this part of the post as it relays no
> information. It merely make a vague accusation and backs it up with nothing.
> Like that's never happened before.
>
> g
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andreas Schou" <ophite at gmail.com>
> To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 11:08 PM
> Subject: [Vision2020] The "Flyer" --
>
> > The "flyer," as Gary calls it, is, first of all, not a "flyer." It
> > doesn't intend to inform anyone other than people already intending on
> > boycotting the businesses in question. Second, although it was (I
> > assume) produced by a co-op employee, if it was produced by the person
> > I think it was, it wasn't produced with any sort of official co-op
> > imprimatur. Third, if it was produced by the person I think it was,
> > this wouldn't be the first time the Kirk had tried to get her fired
> > from a job for being a critic of theirs.
> >
> > Why is this a story?
> >
> > -- ACS
> >
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