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Then your editorial reminds me that by speaking out, my action "only reinforces the vicious stereotype of homosexuals as depraved." It seems we get too big for our breeches when we gays name a violence to which we have historically been subjected (not the violence of the arrest but the homophobia at its root), and that, more suitable and advantageous to our cause would be silence. Or perhaps we should have voiced our opinions apologetically. Would this dissociate the Harvard gay community far enough from Those Men in the Bathroom to leave our cause intact...
...West German government was enraged by his early 1989 columns that helped reveal that nation's complicity in the construction of a Libyan poison-gas factory, which Safire dubbed "Auschwitz in the sand." Nancy Reagan in her autobiography, My Turn, denounces various Safire columns as "heartless and dumb" and "vicious and unbelievable...
...activists are wrong to imply such a blanket defense of anonymous sex in public places. Such action only reinforces the vicious stereotype of homosexuals as depraved...
Another example of the alienation of the unconverted occured during the ROTC debate last spring. At an anti-ROTC rally, a member of ARAC read a vicious ad hominem poem attacking a council member for her support of ROTC. The PC are kidding themselves if they think they can persuade the other side by scaring them or slandering them...
...Luther King Jr. in his arms immediately after the civil rights leader was slain should give one pause. That he has never honestly explained or apologized for his anti-Jewish quip about New York City as "Hymietown," or that he failed to unequivocally denounce or distance himself from the vicious preachings of that Fruit of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, should give one a sense of extreme anxiety. As Henry Adams noted in his autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, it used to be in this country that we held it as a matter of principle to elect those whom we considered...