From: "Ilya V. Talev" Subject: RE: Why Bulgarians, and not Niggers or Jaimies, kid? Dear Mr. Safier, I am glad you are not a kid. This means that you are responsible for your actions. I am not disappointed, nor surprised, to learn that there are bigots in the intellectual community. Granted, you have the freedom to provide resources on and for gay, lesbian, and bisexual people in a public forum. You do not have the freedom to equate the Bulgarian nationality or ethnicity with gays, lesbians, and bisexuals, as you do in the net link "/bulgarians/" and the title "We can always call them Bulgarians". No, sir, you can't. The First Amendment does not stretch that far. Your handiwork has already had an adverse and very unpleasant effect on my children. I mentioned the pejorative words for blacks and Jews only to bring a message to you: had you identified either of those ethnic groups, under whatever name you might use for them, with gays, lesbians, and bisexuals, you would have been out of Carnegie Mellon within 30 minutes. I hereby request that you immediately remove any linkage or other reference to "Bulgarians" or "Bulgaria" from your home page. Ilya Talev talev@access.digex.net talev@msn.com ---------- From: Scott A. Safier[SMTP:corwin+@cmu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 1996 2:19 PM To: Ilya Talev Subject: Re: Why Bulgarians, and not Niggers or Jaimies, kid? >Try to call yourself whatever u are, and leave the Bulgarians alone. 1) I am not a kid 2) Do you consider the term "bulgarians" to be offensive, as Nigger and Jaimies, are? 3) learn to live with disappointment. Scott Safier Robotics Institute internet: corwin+@cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon Univ. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/scotts/www/homepage.html