Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You perfer ethnicist, DonR? How about blatently anti-Arab? Or hatefully anti-Muslim? Do those work better for you? Are they closer to the mark? How about just plain "hateful?" Does that do it? B. D. - ----- Original Message ----- From: Don <don.ro@verizon.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 5:33 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Thought for the day: racist jokes on LUG > Don't worry about the word "racist." That word has been so over used no > one knows what it means anymore. It is just used by those who are > unable to articulate what they really wish to say. > > Don R. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Allan Wafkowski" <allan@sohogurus.net> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 3:37 PM > Subject: [Leica] Re: Thought for the day: racist jokes on LUG > > > > Let's be serious. It was a poor joke, but It carried no hatred. By one > > definition, it would be accurate to call the war between the > Israelis > > and the Palestinians racist. To call the bad joke racist is absurd. > > Racism is a very strong word that means hating a person down to his > very > > bloodline; a true belief that the other person is somehow less then > > human. Hitler and Malcom X were racist, the teller of that joke is > not. > > > > Do you know why you get called a liberal if you protest? Because > > liberals have faulty senses of humor, and are too quick to see people > in > > the poorest light, and foolishly see themselves as having some special > > understanding when they are more often just parroting what they read > or > > heard, without serious thought. When YOU stop hating those who differ > > with you, you might understand that people have different ideas that > > are not as hateful as you think. > > > > Allan > > > > > > DFangon@aol.com wrote: > > > I don't even know what this "joke" was doing on a Leica Users Group > > > List. > > > Bad taste and off topic to boot. And if one protests, they label > you > > > with > > > names like liberal or "left wing" whatever. Some people can't stop > > > hating, > > > even if the subject is about cameras. > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html