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"Joseph DeMartino"  wrote in message
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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, for god's sake, lighten up.

-- 
Mac Breck (KoshN)
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"Babylon 5: Crusade" (1999)
Galen: "There is always hope, only because it's the one thing that no
one has figured out how to kill yet."
(Galen's obviously never met Warner Brothers, TNT-Atlanta or Sci-Fi.)

"Brimstone" (1998)
Angel: Oh, there's one more thing you should know. Your fate was never
determined until you killed Gilbert Jax. All in all, you've led a good
life, Ezekiel. Have faith. Your work's appreciated.
                                   
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