RE: [Leica] the latest madness

["Sam Krneta" <skrneta@mindspring.com>]

Don,

How long are we going to keep this thread alive? This thread has been
trouble from the start and can go only one way, and that would be worse
than it already is. I think this might be a little more appropriate in
another forum. See if PUSH has one, I'm sure you could find a lot of
info there. Lets drop it already.

Sam Krneta


- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Don
Rorschach
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 12:01 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] the latest madness

The next question is: where would they be now if their ancestors had not
been caught by Africans and sold into slavery by Africans?  Africa being
eaten by other Africans?
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Appleby" <rob@robertappleby.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] the latest madness


> It was quite an interesting event actually. Ted made some jokes about
> slavery. I suspect that the people who got angry at him will have made
the
> politically simplistic equation slavery=black slavery in the US.
> Unfortunately, slavery is a major phenomenon in the modern world, with
over
> 200 million slaves worldwide at the moment (can't remember the source,
UN
> most likely), and no-one has a monopoly on victimhood, nor does anyone
hold
> the moral high ground in this area.
>
> Ted left the list - well too bad. He has pissed plenty of people off
in
his
> time and he's also been very helpful to a lot of people on this list
(I
> myself have a pair of his underpants as a lens cleaning cloth), but
his
> mythical status might seem a bit puzzling to an outsider. But I'm sure
that
> he wouldn't have had the career he has had, if he wasn't hard as nails
> underneath the grampa exterior. He'll be back eventually - who could
resist
> the adulation?
>
> Unfortunately the LUG is singularly devoid of a sense of humour and
doesn't
> tolerate satire very well - which is pretty much par for the course
for
the
> internet.
>
> Now if BD left the list - that would be a disaster, in quantitative
terms
at
> least!  ;-)
>
> R.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeffery Smith" <JLS@runbox.com>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 4:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] the latest madness
>
>
> > It happened at the end of the Slavery and Canada thread (which I
avoided
> > looking at altogether). Apparently Ted made some tongue-in-cheek
comments
> > after the thread had gotten completely out of hand, and some folks
took
> him
> > seriously and flamed him. A learning experience for me: (1) don't
say
> > anything tongue in cheek on the LUG because someone will take it
> seriously,
> > and (2) don't take anything seriously on the LUG. This is
approaching
Sci
> > Fi proportions.
> >
> > JLS
> >
> > At 10:14 AM 9/2/2002 -0300, you wrote:
> > >B. D. Colen wrote:
> > >
> > > > I told you what I know to be the case: Ted Grant unsubscribed
from
the
> LUG.
> > > > He did not say anything about taking a breather. He said he was
> > > > unsubscribing after receiving what he describes as a number of
quite
> nasty
> > > > off-list messages from list members even after he apologized
on-list
> > > for his
> > > > post.
> > > >
> > > > He didn't say if he'd be back at some point in the future or
not.
> > > >
> > > > B. D.
> > >
> > >
> > >oh... I missed this !!
> > >what happened ?
> > >
> > >well, people comes and goes... that's life.
> > >
> > >Pablo
> > >
> > >
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> >
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