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 >> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:22:54 -0400, Carl wrote
> (in article ):
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> > 
> > 
> > Amy Guskin wrote:
> > 
> >> My guess is that those of you who are all "Pshaw, it's
nothing!" over this 
> >> phrase are western-European descended white males.
> > 
> > I confess I'm disappointed at this comment. <<
> 
> Why?  I don't believe that _anyone_ who has _ever_ had any kind of negative 
> aspersions cast upon their ancestry would be able to see
"nigger-rigged" -- 
> or any other version thereof -- as "humorous."  Both Charlie
and Mac say it's 
> humorous.  Having heard "jew him down" used casually, I
cannot even remotely 
> imagine using such a term as "nigger-rigged" and equating it
with humor, or 
> "it's just an idiom" or anything else you might say to
whitewash it.  Knowing 
> how painful and humiliating such a term can be from personal experience, I 
> thus conjecture that those who _can_ use such a term with impunity have never 
> been hurt by one.  And while there are certainly derogatory terms for _any_ 
> peoples, including western European ones, on the whole, white males of 
> western European descent are on the receiving end of comparably much less 
> discrimination from the world around them.
> 
> It's a valid conclusion, Carl, although obviously YMMV.
> 
> Amy

  Interesting that you defend your choice of words in much the same 
manner as the other did. Yet yours is a valid conclusion and the others 
an insult.
                                                                           
                                                   
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