Re: Hugo Shortlist 2008 (Sawyer)

John Schilling 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?

It beats the hell out of saying that about blacks, because the 
objection is to smoking, not to smokers.