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In article , Amy Guskin
says...
>
>>> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:48:04 -0400, phil wrote
>(in article ):
>
>> On 17 Sep 2006 18:14:34 -0700, "Joseph DeMartino"
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> phil wrote:
>>> 
>>>> unless the last person to work on your kitchen sink drain
was an idiot
>>>> who Africian American engineered ...
>>> 
>>> Now *there's* a term that belongs on a civilized discussion group.  Any
>>> other stupid ethnic stereotypes you'd like to get off your chest, phil?
>>> 
>>> And before you deny that you're a bigot, let me explain something to
>>> you. If you USE that phrase, you ARE a bigot.  Casually trafficking in
>>> degrading stereotypes if one of the symptoms of that particular
>>> disease.  
>>> 
>>> Joe
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> You don't _know_ me; you've never met me or spent any time in
>> conversation and yet _you_ can parse my comment to conclude that I am
>> a bigot; well _I_ can just as easily parse your statement to conclude
>> that you are a bloviating buffoon, but _I_ wont.
>> It was just such ad hominem assaults  combined with my illness that
>> caused me to pull back from this group some 6 months ago.I see _now_
>> that was the right decision.
>> you have _no_ idea of how badly that idiot butchered this house; don't
>> know his name or race, don't really care>  <<
>
>Phil, to be fair to Joe, _you're_ the one who said "African American 
>engineered."  Now, I have no idea what that means, but I don't see
how it can 
>be taken as anything _but_ a racist comment.  And if you don't know his race, 
>why would you call him that?
>

It took me a minute but I can only assume that "Africian American
engineered" is
a supposedly sanitized way of saying "n****r-rigged".  Blech.  I
need to go wash
my hands now.

Jan


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