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Skriven 2006-09-24 12:48:00 av Robert E Starr JR (9490.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: Can You BELIEVE This?
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"Dennis (Icarus)" <ala_dir_diver@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:dbe0d$451526e6$18d64cf6$24746@KNOLOGY.NET...
> "Mac Breck" <macthevorlon@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:4514bb2a$0$19917$ecde5a14@news.coretel.net...
> > "Amy Guskin" <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote in message
> > news:0001HW.C13A15D3000570F8F0407530@news.verizon.net...
> <snip>
> >
> > > Having heard "jew him down" used casually, I cannot even remotely
> > > imagine using such a term as "nigger-rigged" and equating it with
> > humor, or
> > > "it's just an idiom" or anything else you might say to whitewash
it.
> > Knowing
> > > how painful and humiliating such a term can be from personal
> > experience, I
> > > thus conjecture that those who _can_ use such a term with impunity
> > have never
> > > been hurt by one.
> >
> > And that's why I said it isn't right to use "jew him down" in front
of a
> > Jew, etc. etc.  That's not polite/nice.  If it's used at all, it
should
> > be in front of people for whom it's not likely to be a flashpoint,
> > people who you know are not going to be offended by it.
> >
>
> So you can at least admit that he screwed up by posting such a comment
on an
> internationally-read Usenet newsgroup,

Yes, even though he did try to tone it down.


> I'm reading two things from your comments:
> a) people are too easily offended
> b) you shouldn't use terms like that around folk you don't know
because it
> may be a flashpoint

Right.


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Mac Breck (KoshN)
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"Babylon 5: Crusade" (1999)
Galen: "There is always hope, only because it's the one thing that no
one has figured out how to kill yet."
(Galen's obviously never met Warner Brothers, TNT-Atlanta or Sci-Fi.)

"Brimstone" (1998)
Angel: Oh, there's one more thing you should know. Your fate was never
determined until you killed Gilbert Jax. All in all, you've led a good
life, Ezekiel. Have faith. Your work's appreciated.

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