Re: Hugo Shortlist 2008 (Sawyer)

On 2008-03-27, John Schilling <schillin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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?

Yes.  If, on the other hand, you advocate for limiting the ability to
damage others around them by polluting, you'll get attacked by people
claiming you have an irrational hatred of smokers, and want to persecute
them for no good reason.

-- 
Aaron Denney
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