Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't know if intemperate speech can called racism, particularly in this context and reference. It can certainly skirt the edges of it. One also has to bear in mind that the references were State propagated and sanctioned for a very long time. No effort has been made on the part of the State to dismantle what it has built into the consciousness of the population regarding the usage. Slobodan Dimitrov - ---------- >From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Marc Small's statement that M6 is best built M camera >Date: Mon, Jul 28, 2003, 5:45 PM > > No, he quite clearly is stuck in a racist time warp in which it's 1942 > and he still wants to bomb Tokyo and inter Japanese Americans. > > How does he keep escaping from that locked ward, anyway? > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Mitch > Alland > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 8:25 PM > To: leica-users > Subject: [Leica] Re: Marc Small's statement that M6 is best built M > camera > > > For: Marc Small > >> QC/QA are not items I have addressed in this thread, Don R. (and just >> why >> are you too embarrassed to give us your last name?).... >> As to your other points, I would simply say that you are arguing that > a >> Model T is better designed than a modern automobile simply because it >> is >> hand-built, and that is patently absurd on its face, as I am sure you >> realize. > > > As you can see form the quote below Don R. is stuck in a time warp: > >> The f/stop ring on the "new" 135 apo is so sloppy it reminds me of > 1946 >> Jap camera construction. > > He still is back in 1941 and doesn't realize that "Jap" is not an > acceptable contraction for Japanese. > > --Mitch/Bangkok > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html