Hypocrisy Alert!!!
Yesterday, you said to Yaacov:
Yaacov, calling people kebab eaters is sort of like calling people towel heads or something. It really is a kind of racial slurring. Could we try to stay polite about this stuff?
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In a later post, you commented,
Calling someone Jewish is polite. Calling someone an Arab terrorist, if that is true, is descriptive. But calling someone a racially or culturally derogative term is insulting and impolite and not acceptable at Feelies.
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Yet, in your post to me not too long ago today, you said:
No matter how long or how short, the ending is still the same, and Bush is still a moron, though.
So, let me understand.
It's insulting, impolite and not acceptable to refer to entire ethnic groups by certain names, yet its acceptable for you to make a specific, derogaory comment about a specific, identifiable person? Am I missing something here?
By the way, dictionary.com defines "moron" as:
1. A stupid person; a dolt.
2. Psychology. A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
I daresay that George W. Bush is neither supid nor is he suffering from mild mental retardation.
You may not care for the man, Grainne, but at least respect the office the man holds. Or is that too difficult for you to do? |
