Re: [Leica] lower classes don't use leicas?

["Sonny Carter" <sonc@gmx.net>]

Thanks, B.D.
     I earned the money for my first 35mm camera by cleaning
the floors in stairwells of apartment buildings in Germany.
It never crossed my "poor dim-witted"  mind to steal  to get
the camera.
    I was not a wealthy ex-pat; my father was a non-com in
the Air Force during the Cold War in the early 60's.

Regards,
SonC
http://www.sonc.com



- ----- Original Message -----
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] lower classes don't use leicas?


>
>
> Mxsmanic wrote:
>
> The type of people who work cleaning toilets and/or
> > steal the property of others tend to be poor and
dim-witted,
>
> Yes, people who work cleaning toilets and who out of
desperation steal
> the property of others tend to be poor, but to suggest
that they are
> dim-witted because they are poor or clean toilets is a
truly repulsive,
> vile, classist thing to say that tells us a great deal
about you.
>
> There are plenty of people on this list who at one time or
another
> worked at jobs that were the equivalent of cleaning
toilets, or had
> parents or grandparents who did.
>
> Just who the hell do you think you are, Anthony, to make
this kind of
> statement. Boy, was Kyle on the mark when he pointed out
that there are
> people who think that they are somehow "special" because
they own
> Leicas.
>
> B. D.
>