Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Apology
From: Will von Dauster <vondauster@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:28:39 -0600

And in response to Eve's gentle post, where she comments that:

On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 01:02 PM, Eve Girard wrote:

>
> Jeffery Smith sez:
>> Free speech is one thing, but "Jap" is inflammatory.
>
> I may have missed the event, but have not yet noted a person of 
> Japanese
> origin complaining about the "unfortunate" word.

FYI, the following message, posted earlier on this list, is from a 
friend of mine of Japanese extraction:

"Just a reminder that WWII ended in 1945, and that
"jap" is a racial slur and no better than "n*gger",
"sp*c", "w*p", "ch*nk", "d*go" or "k*ke" --or
"wh*tey".

Which I agree with completely.

Will von Dauster

Who did not appreciate being called a "kraut" - and worse - as a child 
in the 1950s and 60s.

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