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Re: Lego called Racist - "Boycott Legos [sic]"
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Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:33:28 GMT
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   I’ll be interested to learn where your sense of journalistic outrage leads you.

Well, youre gonna have to choose another topic, I can’t lie and say I’m from the US, because I’m Indian. I’d rather not comment on matters I have partial/incomplete knowledge of in the first place; that’d be asking for trouble. So I’ll be diplomatic and not comment on this one. And indeed, if I *did* comment, I’d be hijacking this thread.

Legoswami Samarth



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  Re: Lego called Racist - "Boycott Legos [sic]"
 
(...) Samarth, I've got to commend you on your level-headed maturity, especially for your young age, not just here, but in all things you've been posting on. Send me your address privately-- I'll send you a few Han Solo's in carbonite--free of (...) (19 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
  Re: Lego called Racist - "Boycott Legos [sic]"
 
(...) Hey, you're not one of those non-native speakers of English, are you? Jeez, I wish you guys would wear distinctive hats, or something, so that we can tell you from those of us lucky enough to live under the Annointed Rule of the His Mighty (...) (19 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
  Re: Lego called Racist - "Boycott Legos [sic]"
 
(...) Wow! Yours is the most reasonable post I can remember reading in .debate. Thank you for staying on topic and not feeding the troll. You hit the ball out of the park! (American baseball expression) -Erik (19 years ago, 26-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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  Re: Lego called Racist - "Boycott Legos [sic]"
 
(...) Well, let's maintain some perspective, shall we? This is a campus newspaper, rather than a mainstream AP publication, right? And the article in question is an opinion column, as opposed to a work of research journalism. Honestly, I have a hard (...) (19 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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