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To: PROLIFE who wrote (551674)	3/14/2004 5:38:42 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Your calling me "STUPID" is amusing. I wonder if anyone on this thread will buy this: ////it was a play on his SI "name" tsigprofit , nothing more, get over it, Z. //// What was "nothing more than" a play on his name? Calling him "hopsing"? Hopsing is not remotely a "play on" the word "tsigprofit," it's racial. It's a blatant racial slur used to demean Asians as portraying them as "bumbling servient sidekicks to Anglo heroes." Here's a reference for you: Best Racial Slur by an Amok Public Official: Sen. Sam Brownback (R- Kan.) When questioning former Democratic Finance Director Richard Sullivan about compensating John Huang, the issue was whether Huang could get more money if he raised more funds. It seemed clear enough, but Brownback simply could not hold it in. Summoning up his stored knowledge of Asian Americans, no doubt taken from the book, "All I know about Asian Americans I learned from Hop Sing on 'Bonanza'," Brownback blurted out in his best Asian Ebonics: "So no raise money, no get bonus?" asianweek.com Here's a list of racial slurs, alphabetical so you should be able find Hop Sing easily enough. rsdb.org Does anyone on this thread aside from the person who used it, think "hopsing" wasn't a racist crack at tsigprofit? Here's tsigprofit's reaction. Its emotionality may help resolve this very obscure issue: Message 19349130