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Re: Concerns with Racial Attitudes and Lego
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 15 Aug 2000 15:59:02 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Eric Joslin writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tim Courtney writes:
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> > EVERYONE I talked to
> > about this debate, in person and online, has been very upset by it. They
> > also wish this debate would die.
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> Umm, no. You and I traded a few posts about this, and I certainly don't wish
> the debate would "die"- not as long as there are Lugnet users who are
> interested in exchanging viewpoints about it. What I *do* wish is that people
> who don't want the debate to go on (ie, aren't interested in actually
> discussing the topic at hand) would just go on and talk about whatever it is
> *they* want to talk about, and not accuse people who are trading ideas of
> "bringing down Lugnet" or "adding to the level of hostility".
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> Most of the "upset" and "hostile" people have been the ones DEMANDING this
> thread/discussion cease. If they have nothing better to do than get upset
> about what other people are discussing, that's their problem, not mine.
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> To be clear:
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> 1) I have not been upset in the least by this discussion (that is, the issue • of
> cultural diversity in minifigs.
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> 2) More specifically, I have not been upset by Damien's language or attitudes
> when sddressing me or anyone else.
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> I've made this clear in several of my posts, and don't understand how, as
> someone who has apparently been following this thread, you can make the above
> statement.
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> eric
Well said.
Bruce
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| (...) Umm, no. You and I traded a few posts about this, and I certainly don't wish the debate would "die"- not as long as there are Lugnet users who are interested in exchanging viewpoints about it. What I *do* wish is that people who don't want the (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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