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Originally posted by zchi2
Comparing being gay to Hitler is really crazy.
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Who said anything about Hitler?!
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I don't understand why people are looking at this list so closely. Why, is it necessary to look up other people's organization website to see if that chapter actually exist? If it isn't your organization, I don't know why someone would go through the effort of trying to find out if it is true or not. . . . Like I said, if it isn't your sorority or fraternity, why do you care so much? Is saying that there is a gay person in someone's organization that life-threatening?
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It has nothing to do with it being life-threatening -- my own Fraternity prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, so it doesn't bother me at all for the list to include the names of gay Sinfonians,
provided they really are Sinfonians. It's a matter of honest use the names of our GLO's.
I don't think anyone is going through the list with a fine tooth comb -- people are noticing when someone claims to have been a member of their own GLO at schools where there has never been a chapter of that GLO, or are noticing when someone at their own school claims to be a member of a GLO that has never been at that school. With regard to my own school, when I saw the reports of inaccuracies from other other GC'ers, purely out of curiousity I went to the website of the chapter in question and found, in the chapters list of all initiated members since its establishment, no reference to the name on the "out" list.
The fact that a number of people are finding such inaccuracies with regard to their own GLO or school raises valid questions: is this site something other than it claims to be, or being used contrary to its purpose. If all the names on the list really are the names of real Greeks from real chapters who are using this means of declaring that they are out, then fine. But if they are not real Greeks from real chapters, then they are using the names of our GLO's dishonestly to further their own cause. I have a problem with that -- the ends, however laudible, do not justify the means -- and I think the people who maintain the list need to be called on it (if it is intentional) or alerted to it (if it is not).