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"Charlie Edmondson"  wrote in message
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> Joseph DeMartino wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> >
> Hmmm, so, someone uses a euphimised verion of an old engineering term,
> and that makes him a racist enemy of all right thinking persons
> everywhere...  Yep, the PC police have no lack of helpers here!

LOL, no doubt about it.


> And, yes, the term does date back a long ways, when sharecroppers and
> other poor farmers would often have to repair and maintain equipment
and
> facilites with little more than baling wire and ingenuity.  It
describes
> a job that looks like heck, may not last long enough to get a good
look
> at it, but does the job for now.

Does the job, for now, if you're lucky.  It's usually followed by a pro
coming in to fix the job, looking at it , and thinking "Who t
he hell put together this mess?"


> Hey, I'm an engineer, and have done my
> own share of 'Afro-Engineering' on projects that I am an expert!

Goes against your grain, though, doesn't it?



> I personally feel that anyone that goes to this great of lengths
> enforcing political correctness is both racist (in the 'methinks she
> doth protest too much' sense) and lacks a sense of humor...

Probably not a racist, but is definitely is acting in knee-jerk fashion,
and lacks a sense of humor.


-- 
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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