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Re: OT It's The Stupid Timing Stupid-what?
"Bruce L. Bergman" <blnospambergman@earthlink.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:16:08 -0500, "Wickeddoll®"
> <wickeddoll1958diespammersdie@yahoo.com> wrote:[color=green]
>>"Cathy F." ..[color=darkred]
>>> "Wickeddoll®" ...
>>>> "mark_digital©" <...
>>>>> "Wickeddoll®" ...
>>>>>> "mark_digital©" ...[/color][/color]
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>>>>>>> On a much smaller scale, our first afro-American governor Duval
>>>>>>> Patrick
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *snipped*
>>>>>> Not to go all PC on you, but "Afro" is a hairstyle. Always was.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been making mistakes all day but that wasn't one of them.
>>>>> [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-American[/url]
>>>>> I did spelled his name wrong. It's Deval, not Duval.
>>>>
>>>> You do realize Wiki is uploaded by any and everyone, right?
>>>
>>> Yeah, but... there was a program about Wikipedia on NPR a few weeks ago;
>>> interesting. It (Wikip.) is checked vigilantly - all of the
>>> time/constantly, virtually immediately after any content is added;
>>> thousands of people doing the checking. Boiled down to: it's more
>>> reliable than I would've thought.[/color][/color]
>
> Not necessarily. There are some people running around doing
> mass-cancels of articles they personally don't agree with being on
> there, for example web-based comics and book reviews/synopses.
>
> Wikipedia is a reasonably good source, but their criteria on the
> appropriety of a post being there and being accurate has loopholes you
> can sail a PanaMax sized ocean freighter through.[/color]
LOL My point exactly.[color=blue]
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>>Still anecdotal and quite subjective, but I really don't care enough to
>>argue about it. I still maintain I've never heard anyone black use that
>>phrase. Ever.
>>So there you have it.[/color]
>
> Yes - but you can also freely use the dreaded N-word and several
> other "not acceptable terms" in casual conversation - God Forbid
> anyone else even utter it in public, we get lynched by the Court of
> Public Opinion. Every other-than-black person has to walk on
> eggshells around the subject, no matter how silly it is.[/color]
Oh don't get me started on that. I think it's absolutely disgusting, no
matter *who* says it.[color=blue]
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> There are very few descriptive terms that *someone* won't try to
> tern into a grave insult.[/color]
Hell ya[color=blue]
>
> Just look at all the furor about an actor referring to another
> possibly homosexual actor using the F-Word - even using the word in
> the /denial/ of calling someone the word (with an open microphone
> nearby) can get you in a load of trouble. All of a sudden he's
> talking atonement, and personal redemption, and self-examination for
> deep seated biases and problems, and healing the GLBT community...
>
> Yet again, Political Correctness runs amok.[/color]
Agreed - it's sort of like them bleeping the word "shit" on TV shows. You
can clearly tell that's what they said, so it's a joke to me.[color=blue]
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>>>> Michael Richards may have uploaded that entry.
>>>>
>>>> I uploaded one about the phrase from "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
>>>> showing up on "Hercules".
>>>>
>>>> It's not a definitive reference.
>>>>
>>>> Having said that, I've been black my whole life, and have never heard
>>>> my
>>>> brethren refer to themselves as "Afro" - only whites do that.
>>>>
>>>> Natalie[/color][/color]
>
> And stop and think about how we have to tap-dance around the subject
> when it comes up - trust me, it isn't fun.[/color]
Bruce, I'm in an interracial marriage. Believe me, I know. Hubby and the
kids can also call themselves "Polack", but I'd better not even try to use
that word!
Natalie, been there, tap-danced that
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