| User | Comment |
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| hunter | | posted 26-Feb-1999 2:41pm |
I probably would not involve the legal system in my dispute unless I felt that I was being denied my legal rights or some calculable benefit and that a verdict in my favor would actually fix something.
I cannot say that I would not join a club, although the reality is that I do not join clubs (although I'm actually thinking about joining an interest-based club at the moment, I've been lame about sending in the sign-up sheet). |
| Jody | | posted 26-Feb-1999 3:16pm |
How outraged would be depends on how strongly I believed I would be admitted, and how flimsy their reasons why I shouldn't be. I'm not much of a media-hound when it comes to fights like this - I tend to leave that kind of stuff to my mom (muckracker and fearless leader). |
| lara | | posted 26-Feb-1999 3:36pm |
i suppose i'd just sulk for a while and then get over it. i'm not much of a joiner. |
| elijahblue | | posted 26-Feb-1999 3:43pm |
This just seems silly. If you don't meet the defined criteria, what is there to protest about? |
| anonymous | | posted 26-Feb-1999 3:55pm |
Elijah: so blacks shouldn't protest all-white golf courses? |
| Nyssa | | posted 26-Feb-1999 4:25pm |
When I was a teenager I dated a guy who was addicted to cocaine. He refused to talk to anyone about it. I wanted to talk with people about the addiction, how it affects a person and likely ways to break the habit. I was told by the group I approached that I could not join because I personally was not addicted, and that I would have to convince the guy to go. I felt disappointed, because I was actively trying to get information and would have been able to participate at some level. They could even have said "you can listen to us, but not contribute since you don't know what it's like to go through this" - I would have been OK with that. |
bill   | | posted 26-Feb-1999 9:54pm |
I gotsta gets me ah seekrit I den titty! |
dab  | | posted 26-Feb-1999 9:58pm |
I've found all of these club questions very difficult to answer. I've tried to answer them in the spirit asked but I've never been unable to join a club or organization that I _wanted_ to join and find it hard to imagine. Were it to happen I don't think I'd do much more than gritch about it to friends. |
| elijahblue | | posted 26-Feb-1999 11:17pm |
anon: If the golf course is privately funded, I believe it should be allowed to be whites-only, blacks-only, men-only, women-only, whatever. If it's publicly funded I don't.
But it's interesting that you should choose the usual example of a whites-only club. How about all the black-only clubs? Do you have a problem with those?
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| elijahblue | | posted 26-Feb-1999 11:18pm |
bill: I thought you were a SNAG. What is all this blatant talk of titties?  |
| lara | | posted 27-Feb-1999 9:43am |
bill belongs to the society of north american goldsmiths??? |
| bill | | posted 27-Feb-1999 11:05am |
That would be a club - and it's a well know fact that I don't join clubs. |
they    | | posted 28-Feb-1999 3:36am |
I don't do clubs... I am, however, interested in starting a cult. ;) |
| Catsmeow23 | | posted 1-Mar-1999 11:32am |
it would all depend on how badly I wanted to be in the club and if it were worth the battle |
| Lady | | posted 2-Mar-1999 11:38am |
I don't know exactly how I'd take action, but I wouldn't want to be in a club with people who were prejudice (against my income, area I live in, gender, race, etc.) and superficial anyway. I'd just write it off as their loss. |
| mandy |
I'm NOT a joiner!!!! |
