Google| Subject | Re: Republicanism still an offence in England? (wasRe: Queen mother |
| From | Bagronk the Happy Orc |
| Date | 2002-05-22 19:41 (2002-05-22 19:41) |
| Message-ID | <ihkneu84po39ih4c6ok60b7l2r52du5egr@4ax.com> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
| Follows | ?jevind L?ng |
| Followups | Geoffrey Kimbrough (6h & 23m) |
I found some words from "?jevind L?ng" <ojevind.lang@swipnet.se>in my phone cable...
?jevind L?ngAllright with me. Even more because that's exactly what these Iraqi and Palestinian and Terrorism and Brood-sow threads are starting with - someone making a biased comment over an entire group of people, mostly over Islam / Arabs. And as - strangely - the people who do so seem always to be American, it's seductively easy for me to jump on that train and bash Americans in reply.
Jeff George wrote:Jeff George?jevind L?ng
Typical American: presuming to judge others' ways of life from their own shallow and narcissistic existence.
Please, can't we all stop this name-calling and comdemning entire groups of people as being this or that? To express hatred and contempt for an entire group of people on ethnic grounds is simply wrong, whether we are talking about Arabs, "Murkians", "Urpians", "Brits", "Pakis" or "Jewboys". Or for that matter, "gayboys" or "papists".
So let's formulate a PC version of the quoted sentence, the one you're worrying about:
"Typical for a special kind of thinkers: presuming to judge others' ways of life from their own shallow and narcissistic existence. This special kind of thinkers is not nation-founded nor ethnic-founded, it merely bases on being exposed to a biased information / propaganda system for a long time, combined with a special potpourri of social, ethical and religious dogmas. The complex teamwork of these factors pushed your [insert name here] last post into the adjacency of the fuzzy borders of that group "a special kind of thinkers". Funnily, the people who drive most often towards or into that group seem to be Americans. Or humans of each nation whose kind of thinking resembles that one which is often wrongly considered "typical American".
Phew. Makes discussions more difficult, I think.
-- Bagronk the Happy Orc Uruk Revolutionary Socialist Movement
2002-03-30-
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