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Re: Why can't we have a Lando: Lego's Race policy
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 2 May 2000 19:14:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Petrucelli writes:
> > First I am not blaming you Chris for using "race" in the manner which you • did.
>
> Whether you blame him or not, you jumped all over him, both when he made the
> statement in the first place as well as when he tried to correct himself. I'm
> sure you have nothing against Chris personally, but it seemed to me (and,
> apparently, to him) that you were attacking him or his views directly.
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> > Also I would never attempt to trivialize Dr. Martin Luthor King Jr.'s death.
> > I simply can not understand why anyone cares what color skin I or anyone
> > else has. I do not understand why it matters. We are all human.
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> In much the same way that no one here has asserted the existence of a
> "causasian gene," no one here denies that you don't understand why it
> matters. The fact that you're placing your lack of understanding above the
> sacrifices and hardships of countless generations of people of varying
> heredities and backgrounds is itself a trivialization of those sacrifices.
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> > I truly belive that makes me either way above you all or incredibly naive. I
> > don't really know which.
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> I don't think naive is the word I'd choose, and you certainly don't seem to
> be above anyone.
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> > Not to trivialize my above statement but I also can not understand why anyone
> > would pay so much money for a "pure bread" dog.
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> Again, you're drawing no distinction between your inability to understand
> something and someone else's desire to do that same thing. Just because I
> can't understand what it's like to be burned over 80% of your body, I don't
> deny that those who have been burned that way have suffered.
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> Dave!
Seeing as how I started this in the first place, I should end it. I feel that
the conversation took a bad turn quite a while ago. I was a tad bit upset
with Mike, and ir he was with me, that's OK. So, I think it's time to just
drop this whole stupid argument. I pray to just get a Lando fig, and although
I would like him a couple shades darker, I can handle a yellow minifig head.
No sense in hollering at each other like madmen over little plastic people who
don't even exist yet. ;)
-Chris
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