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Re: The Silliness Goes On and On and On and....
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Sat, 8 Sep 2001 04:23:50 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Greg Perry writes:
> In lugnet.general, Skip Robinson writes:
> > My daughter was "made in China" we adopted her from there and she is
> > perfect..please do not be racist..OK
> >
> > Thanks
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> To quote Nero Wolfe "Phooey!"
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> Once again, I challenge you and all the other people who are so absolutely
> and stunningly eager to hurl charges of racism (can ANYONE explain this
> phenomena?)
c/phenomena/phenomenon (sorry, the editor gene asserted itself)
What's weirdest to me is that the cry "racism" is used so very
*incorrectly* a large part of the time. For example, the charge
of essentialization (which one might feasibly level against Greg)
is a matter of generalization that may or may not be connected
to racist or racialist views. (Quick note: racist = superior
and different; racialist in the Paul Gordon Laurel sense = equal
but identifying race as a category. The difference is small
enough to be semantic for most purposes.) I think it's a case of
poor subset parsing--all racists will essentialize (they must!),
but essentialization is not necessarily racist. In our hyper-
sensitized Moon Madness state, folks seem to be forgetting that.
I know I've written this before. It must be that eyeball-biting
monkey [1] again! eep eep
> So, Mr. Robinson I would turn your request back on you and ask you to please
> not be someone who, in his desire to protect his daughter from perceived
> racism, is himself turned into a close-minded bigot.
I've got to turn your other charge around now. I'm not sure you've
used "bigot" correctly. (Unless the group you're referring to is
"people who go out seeking racism," I suppose. ;) )
best
LFB
[1] (tm 2001 Richard Noeckel. I still get a kick out of that visual.)
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| (...) Once again Lindsay I thank you for your input to this discussion. I'm also probably one of the few people in this forum who appreciates being set straight on the misuse of particular words, so THANKS. I wonder if you'd be willing to circle (...) (23 years ago, 8-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) To quote Nero Wolfe "Phooey!" Once again, I challenge you and all the other people who are so absolutely and stunningly eager to hurl charges of racism (can ANYONE explain this phenomena?) to produce the evidence of that "crime" in my posting. (...) (23 years ago, 8-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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