Re: Hugo Shortlist 2008 (Sawyer)

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:31:25 -0700 (PDT), DouhetSukd
<DouhetSukd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Reminds me of watching a black guy and an Arab having a go at each
>other years ago in Paris.
>
>The Arab thought he had the last word when he told the other guy:
>
>"Hey, my grandfather would have owned your grandfather".
>
>Dunno about y'all, but not something I would be bragging about
>myself.
>
>PC, for all its faults, has influenced our society to the point where
>intolerance is getting to be frowned upon.  

Really?  So if I go out and rant about how, say, smokers are evil 
bastards who ought to be isolated from decent people, every last one
of them, just for being somkers, that's going to be frowned on?

>Which a good thing.

Rearranging the list of things one is encouraged to be intolerant 
of, is rarely an improvement.  It could be, if it were carefully
and thoughtfully done, but it rarely is.


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