Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 4/14/02 B. D. Colen wrote: >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? > For a supposed "journalist" you seem incompetent with language. There wasn't anything "hateful" about the joke. I'd go with tasteless or even hurtful to an Arab or a Muslim but not "hateful." Certainly it didn't qualify as "hate speech" and there's something broken somewhere along the line if it is counted as such. Now I'm sure that there are some guidelines somewhere - possibly in an MIT or Harvard student manual - which might find a way to define it as "hate speech". But we already know where free speech at academic institutions has gone over the past 20 years. I've heard enough hate speech, the real thing, to know the difference. So if you are going to use that term you need to cite chapter and verse in order to sustain it. Adam Bridge - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html