Re: Way OT: It's Stuff Like This....




"tom ronson" <madscribe123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Andrew In Alabama wrote:

I agree with your sentiment, tr. I think that your point could have
been made just as forcefully (probably more so) without the epithet.

I agree.

Since I know you personally, and nothing else you have ever posted has
caused me to consider you a bigot or racist, this post is all I will
say about this.

thanks --- as I said I don't have a racist bone in my body. I just
couldn't care less about that sort of stuff -- folks is folks and I take
them one at a time as they come at me.

That word, for better or for worse, is so loaded and sets off so many
alarms that it is better, IMO, never to use it.

It certainly is; what do they call it? the safest bet.

apologies to those who are / were offended.

--tr

tr---It takes a big man to apologize. Are you sure you are up to it?
Funny how we have changed the meaning of 'racist' and 'racism' in the last
20 years. Ok, maybe its not funny,


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