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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (85509)	1/2/2012 6:24:46 PM
From: Ilaine	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220282

It may have just been a matter of nomenclature. "Negro" is a word that cannot be used on polite society in America anymore. It has become an insult. There are other words which are not related in any way that cannot be used, either, e.g., niggardly, which means stingy or miserly and is related to niggling, which you probably should not use either. It's just one of those things that you can't know unless you are in the culture, like a thumb's up means "up yours" in some cultures, or the OK sign means you are calling the other person a catamite. How many cultural barriers do we need to cross to communicate? They're everywhere and we don't always see them. I used to collect racist memorabilia (one company I worked for printed the KKK newspaper) (very weird, by the way, but that's another story for another time) (in those days you could make a living selling newsprint with ads in it) (lots of other newspapers, too, society, real estate, gay, hetero swingers, black power, antiques, boats, dog fanciers, art, whoever had money and needed a printing press) but stopped (the collecting, not the printing) because I feared that someday the grandkids would find them and think Grandma was a racist who approved of them, rather than found them aborrent. Actually thirty years later I think they will just think it was all rather quaint. At any rate I am familiar with Words You Cannot Say, and Things You Cannot Think, Much Less Express. Actually I do wish people would keep the discourse civil, first step being asking someone whether he meant what you think he meant, before you go off on him.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (85509)	1/3/2012 8:17:48 AM
From: Metacomet	7 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 220282

First I would like to observe what a pretentious, verbose bore you are. I guess the isolation of living in a non-place like Kiwi land must drive you to these pathetic attempts to communicate with actual civilization. That being said, I think you and your cheering section really should go back and look at the definition of racism that was provided. You are obviously too thick, like most fundamentalists, to grasp the nuance that being a racist and a xenophobe are very different states of mind. I am pretty sure that Elmat has over time and on numerous occasion shared opinions that put him firmly in the camp of being a racist, ie, he thinks his race is superior to the negro. We can let Elmat take exception to that statement if he wants. We don't need a frustrated, self important twit of a Queens subject, twisting the intent of that non-accusatory observation. I do not think that our Brazilian friend is a xenophobe, I do think he is a racist. Consult a good dictionary before you put your ignorance on display again.