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phil wrote:

> you have _no_ idea of how badly that idiot butchered this house;<

Nor do I need to react to your use of a racist term.  The context is
irrelevant.  If my plumber really does a bad job rennovating my
bathroom does that justify my calling him at big, stupid WOP?

> don't know his name or race, don't really care <

So you don't even have the excuse that the guy who did the work
actually *was* African American and that your imputation of inferior
skills to that ethnic group had some kind anecdotal "justification" in
your particular case.  No, you admit you have no idea what race the guy
was, you just casually use the term "African-American engineered" (a
variation on the equally lovely "n*****-rigged" or its more pretentious
cousin, "Afro-Engineered") to describe bad plumbing work done by
*anyone* because ... well if not because you believe that inferior work
is characteristic of African-Americans, then why?

That you evidently still don't see the problem tells me all I really
need or care to know about you.  

Joe
                                                                           
                                            
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