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To: Ilaine who wrote (85510)	1/3/2012 2:49:53 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Respond to of 220291

No, it's not just nomenclature. ElM was doing the impermissible these days which is making a generalisation which is [he thinks] true, but unacceptable. Interestingly, it's okay to make collectivist generalisations which are positive, but in fact are exactly as racist as negative generalisations, in that by saying some ethnic group has specially admirable attributes, it ipso facto means other groups are lesser endowed. The racist quickly gets around that by saying, "Oh, but all groups have their own wonderful attributes". Okay, so they all have their own wonderful ones, but is there any such thing as an undesirable attribute? Or is everything about all cultures and genetic foundations just hunky dory? Personally, being aware of some of my genetic deficiencies up close and personal, I am very well aware that it would be very easy for somebody else to be superior in all respects, though of course there are some attributes which have no 'right' answer as it depends on the matter of "what for". So being tall is good in some ways and bad in others. It depends on what's being achieved. There isn't a superior height, though interestingly, most people consider being taller than average as being desirable and superior. I very much like the fact that there are ethnic groups superior to mine because it means they create all sorts of things such as CDMA, genetic engineering, magnetic resonance imaging and mobile Cyberspace which I can use if I load a few bales of hay to feed their animals or perform other relatively menial tasks to save them having to do it. It's a very good deal for me. The consumer surplus I enjoy is fantastic. And what's wrong with the word Negro anyway? I'm fairly attuned to words and their usage. I can't think of a better word. African American is not what I mean. I'm not going to use Black as it's a ridiculously broad word when more precision is available and it seems a denigrating word though I know it's in popular usage. Dark Indians fit that word. So do Melanesians and Australian Aborigines. Niggardly isn't quite miserly or stingy. It's more along the lines of nickel and diming, or chiseling, than outright tight-fisted. To me anyway but maybe that's just how I've read it over the decades. Maybe I'm wrong. And a niggling pain is best described like that. Or maybe an intermittent pain? No, that's not right. Irritating pain? No. Subclinical non-specific peripheral neuropathy? Well, let's speak plain english. There's quite a collection of ethnic slurs: en.wikipedia.org I notice that Negro is not in that list which is so complete that I have never heard of most of them. So it's not that they haven't heard of the word. It is obviously not a slur. I note they omitted "Pommy Bastard" which is an accentuated denigration with more force than the often friendly Pom or Pommy which are not in themselves much of a slur, if at all. A joking vulgar insult about New Zealand males, the Kiwi, is that it is nocturnal, flightless, stupid, not much use, almost extinct, and eats roots shoots and leaves. You'd have to be good at correcting punctuation and know some local lingo to decipher that, but give it a go. Basically, it means they are like ElM's Angolans. Google can help I guess. In fact, actual kiwis eat grubs and stuff which they can apparently smell with nostrils on the end of their long beaks which are good for poking around in leaf litter and whatnot. Mqurice