Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/17

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us, leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Japs, Brits, Yanks, Krauts, Les Bosch, Jerry, Ruski's,etc.
From: "Roger L. Beamon" <beamon@primenet.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 09:26:18 -0700 (MST)
 
At 10:46 AM 7/17/96 EDT, J. Redfern wrote:
>
>>        It strikes me as particularly provincial and American to be so PC.
>>All this talk about not using names to describe people of a different race
>>is just so much hipocracy, unless you are actively challenging the growing
>>racial intolerance, both in the U.S., and in our treatment of other
>>countries.  I think attacking me for an inocuous comment such as I made, is
>>just being self righteous, and trying to make yorself look good without
>>really doing anything.
>
>Well said!
>Jae
>(an expat' "limey".)

Ditto from a native "colonial" who is totally put off by the PC movement.
     --
     Roger Beamon,  Naturalist & Photographer
                               Docent:  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
                               Leica Historical Society Of America
                               INTERNET:  beamon@primenet.com