Text 26766, 90 rader
Skriven 2007-02-01 22:34:58 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 26757 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
Ärende: Presidential race
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Ross Cassell -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 RC> Hello Ed!

 RC> 01 Feb 07 20:03, you wrote to Mimi Gallandt:

 EH>> John's claim that he uses the term to describe all illegals is
 EH>> disengenuous at best.

 EH>> There is no justifiction for using racist language.

 RC> I think all bank robbers are assholes.

Fine.

 RC> I think those whom rape and molest women, children should be castrated.

Good for you.

 RC> In this context, its plenty justification to call or refer to these
 RC> types in a deragatory way, they have given one reason to dislike or hate
 RC> them.

Hate only affects the hater.

 RC> Now why cant John dislike central and south americans whom break our
 RC> laws to enter the country and who gets to decide for him the methods he
 RC> chooses to voice this dislike?

He can dislike anyone he wishes. Calling them "wetbacks" doesn't do a thing WRT
the issue.

 RC> Before calling him a racist, has he referred to all latinos as wetbacks?

He doesn't have to.

 RC> Shooting them as they cross the border, sure, ok, its extreme, but they
 RC> are just words, and I bet as you drove down the road and saw another
 RC> driver break some traffic law, you may have at least "mused" that that
 RC> person ought to get a punishment that would be well extreme of
 RC> established laws.

You'd lose that bet. I wish no one ill.

 RC> Between approximately 11:45pm last night and 6:30am or so today, our
 RC> power was out (thats why you all couldnt connect), it was due to a drunk
 RC> driver hitting a pole up on the main drag. I dont like having the mail
 RC> hub offline, I certainly dont like not having the option to make coffee
 RC> and I certainly dont like not having HEAT! When I heard what caused our
 RC> outage, I thought all kinds of unpleasant things about and towards that
 RC> drunk driver who had the gaul to break the frickin law and inconvenience
 RC> myself and my neighbors.

Good for you.

 RC> Point is, allow others to use extreme emphasis to convey their intent.

Nope, ain't gonna happen.

 RC> This is not the defend John Hull show, but we all say strong words to
 RC> voice displeasure.

Using strong words is one thing, using racial slurs is quite another.

 RC> and I will point out that most of us in here voice our displeasure about
 RC> Otto Ross Sauer and Wayne Chirnside all the frickin time about their
 RC> social dependent status, we say some pretty mean things to convey that,
 RC> downright nasty ass insults, even if most are well deserved, so why is
 RC> John facing the firing squad over how he chose to voice displeasure?

No one is using racial slurs against Otto or Wayne.

Ed

-- 
"Were the pictures which have been drawn by the political
jealousy of some among us faithful likenesses of the human
character, the inference would be, that there is not
sufficient virtue among men for self-government; and that
nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them
from destroying and devouring one another."

-- Alexander Hamilton and James Madison (Federalist No. 55,
15 February 1788)


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