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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Thought for the day: racist jokes on LUG
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 17:45:32 -0400
References: <676545DE-4FE7-11D6-87BA-003065D4DE46@sohogurus.net> <000701c1e3fc$0efefc20$0200a8c0@lightningpiv>

You perfer ethnicist, DonR? How about blatently anti-Arab? Or hatefully
anti-Muslim? Do those work better for you? Are they closer to the mark? How
about just plain "hateful?" Does that do it?

B. D.
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Don <don.ro@verizon.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Thought for the day: racist jokes on LUG


> Don't worry about the word "racist."  That word has been so over used no
> one knows what it means anymore.  It is just used by those who are
> unable to articulate what they really wish to say.
>
> Don R.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Allan Wafkowski" <allan@sohogurus.net>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 3:37 PM
> Subject: [Leica] Re: Thought for the day: racist jokes on LUG
>
>
> > Let's be serious. It was a poor joke, but It carried no hatred. By one
> > definition, it would be accurate to call the war between the
> Israelis
> > and the Palestinians racist. To call the bad joke racist is absurd.
> > Racism is a very strong word that means hating a person down to his
> very
> > bloodline; a true belief that the other person is somehow less then
> > human. Hitler and Malcom X were racist, the teller of that joke is
> not.
> >
> > Do you know why you get called a liberal if you protest? Because
> > liberals have faulty senses of humor, and are too quick to see people
> in
> > the poorest light, and foolishly see themselves as having some special
> > understanding when they are more often just parroting what they read
> or
> > heard, without serious thought. When YOU stop hating those who differ
> > with you, you might  understand that people have different ideas that
> > are not as hateful as you think.
> >
> > Allan
> >
> >
> > DFangon@aol.com wrote:
> > > I don't even know what this "joke" was doing on a Leica Users Group
> > > List.
> > > Bad taste and off topic to boot.  And if one protests, they label
> you
> > > with
> > > names like liberal or "left wing" whatever.  Some people can't stop
> > > hating,
> > > even if the subject is about cameras.
> >
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In reply to: Message from Allan Wafkowski <allan@sohogurus.net> ([Leica] Re: Thought for the day: racist jokes on LUG)
Message from "Don" <don.ro@verizon.net> (Re: [Leica] Re: Thought for the day: racist jokes on LUG)