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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-14-05 02:03 PM
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4. yeah well, the economic reality
is that most of us homos don't drive jags OR Land Rovers, and they know it.

We prefer Mercedes, BMWs, cute little Japareanese imports and pickup trucks anyway, and they know it. So the economic reality is that a boycott would REALLY be in name only, and they know it.

There is nothing any big company does that has an "external facing" impact that hasn't been prequalified through two hundred different risk analyses, and there is no economic impact to Ford no matter what we do. Finally, they continue to give money to our causes, black tie dinners, charity events, etc.

This is not good news - but we need to treat it like darwin instead of flouncing our outrage back at them. We can't hurt ford.

But we can hurt the AFA, and that's where we should focus our time and attention.

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