Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 4:40 PM +0100 1/9/99, Joe Stephenson wrote: >Dear fellow LUG users: Re: the subject line >According to the American Heratige dictionary the word "jap" is >"(disparaging and offensive)." Is this what we want our public utterances to >reflect? Thank you, Joe. I have waited to see how other LUGgers would respond to the word. It is by no means politically correct. However, the real problem is that the original post was full of ill will toward a specific people or culture. It was neither a joke nor an objective statement of the putative theft. Remember there are quite a few Japanese LUGgers here. I am a Japanese and believe that this post was an exceptional aberration in this mailing list. Cheers, Mikiro Mori Strasbourg, Alsace ****************** Visit my gallery at http://members.tripod.com/arbos3/cigogne/index.html