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>>On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:19:10 -0400, Mac Breck wrote
>(in article ):
>
>> "Amy Guskin"  wrote in message
>> news:0001HW.C13A15D3000570F8F0407530{at}news.verizon.net...
>>>>> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:22:54 -0400, Carl wrote
>>> (in article ):
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>> 
>> What?  I never said it was humorous.  It's not funny.  It's meant to
>> convey CONTEMPT about the job.  In Phil's case, it was about the job
>> done in constructing the bathroom floor supports. <<
>
>You accused the people who took exception to the comment as having
"no sense 
>of humor" (http://tinyurl.com/jzz5r).  Generally, that means you find 
>something humorous that others do not.

It wouldn't even convey *contempt for the job* if it didn't have the
connotations of the *people* involved in the slur already built in to
it.  As Amy, points out, apparently from your previous posts,  you
found *something* humorous in it.  As I've said before, (but, of
course, you've already demonstrated that you don't see it that way),
it is not only NOT humorous, but offensive to boot.

If you can't see that historical baggage, then that's YOUR failing,
not mine for being oversensitive.

But, then, I suspect you've at least partially succeeded.  This is my
last post on this.
>
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I'm beginning to believe it."


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