Word: aalarmed
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Thus, we find extremists dominating the current discourse (ORGASM and AALARM), while the liberals have lost the motivation to argue intelligently for their positions. It is not a defense of liberal values to say that an opponent is "racist" or "homophobic," and as the current assault on Roe v. Wade shows, liberals must be careful not to fall into the complacency of an established position...
...stand is also wrong. It has leaped to the defense of an employee action it should instead disavow. Defeat Homophobia is short-sighted in advocating the suppression of unpopular opinions. The dispute is made even easier by the fact that the poster in question had nothing to do with AALARM's opinions on homosexuality; its opposition to UHS funding for abortion is well within legitimate campus discourse...
...letter to The Crimson, Defeat Homophobia writes that the employee was well within his rights to refuse "to aid AALARM in its pursuit of free speech" and that his action was one of conscience. Would Defeat Homophobia's position be the same if a Kinko's employee had refused to copy one of their posters? What if he had said, "I'm morally opposed to homosexuality. I have a deep problem with an organization that explictly advocates acts I deem sinful...
...members of AALARM obviously are not satisfied. And, as the staff editorial points out, listening to AALARM spout lunch-counter rhetoric is "the epitome of hypocrisy...
Though Defeat Homophobia's counterprotest was an AALARM-esque exercise in self-promotion, they did cut to the quick of the conflict: the decision was not institutionalized censorship but the choice of two individuals...