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To: tcmay who wrote (55751)	9/18/2001 4:08:06 PM
From: jcholewa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

> Your conflation of "cripple" with "muscular dystrophy" > is itself insulting to many. I had not realized that it might be. The word "cripple" is not slang, and in fact in the dictionary it is "A person or animal that is partially disabled or unable to use a limb or limbs". A person with muscular dystrophy is a subset of that group. I do not say this term with any malevolance. I, myself, am mentally crippled after a fashion. I have to take medication in order to remain focused on simple tasks. I do not consider myself superior or inferior to any other person who has a crippling affliction. > You started talking about Bin Laden and Christianity and > religion right in the middle of a thread about AMD's > absence from the military market today. That's a lie. Look back in the thread. The person to whom I sent my initial message of this conversation said "I hear that the reason for all of the sales on P4s is that they can't sell them even at lower prices. But hey! They could always use them as boat anchors!". This message, to me, says nothing about AMD's absence from the military market. My response was specifically about comments like these and how they are counterproductive to civil conversation. I was not forcibly trying to stop him from what he was saying, but I was hoping to at least convince him of being a little more tactful, given current tensions. > Apologist for AMD, heal thyself. How does being against insults either against AMD or against Intel automatically make me an "apologist for AMD"? And how would I heal my dislike for insults? -JC