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To: Elmer who wrote (144525)10/1/2001 4:07:08 PM
From: tcmay  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
"Amy, if you think intolerance is limited to name calling then I can certainly understand why you keep making this an issue. I don't share your view. I think intolerance is defined by being intolerant and I don't mind pointing it out when it happens. If you're unconcerned by the intolerance yet offended by the name I choose to describe it then maybe you should be examining your own intolerance? I think you are having an "illegal thought" as you so well put it."

Besides which, the term "storm trooper" that Amy says refers to a member of the Nazi military, is a common term for a political actor. Multiple definitions and uses for this common expression, just as there are for "thought police" and "Gestapo" and so on.

Such labels are short-hand, a la metonymy, for a complex of related ideas.

When Elmer says someone is a Storm Trooper, we know precisely what he means. And the dictionaries *I* use even support such uses: "one who resembles or behaves like..."

As for Amy objecting so strongly in recent days to what she says is "name-calling," I didn't see her attacking certain others here for their nicknames for other posters. (Not that I objected to those nicknames...we're adults, we can handle the truth. )

--Tim May
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