What group think is that. Picture yourself in a crowded room. You're talking
in a loud voice, because it's noisy, and you use that phrase. Do you think
that it would be group think to imagine that it might be offensive to a good
percentage of the people in the room? Let's say it's a room full of lawyers.

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"Dave" wrote in message
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On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 10:16:30 -0500, katy

said:

There is nothing wrong with a modicum of sensitivity to
your fellow man.

No dispute about that. I suggest that individual sensitivity to one's
fellow
man is far preferable to groupthink of the type Jon seems to propose. I
find
it unfortunate that increasingly a rule-based "there oughta be a law"
approach is replacing other social controls such as learned individual
sensitivity.

It's a chink in his armor, so I'll let it go.

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"Joe" wrote in message
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Oh man....your going to get a jap slap from Jon for that one.

Joe

Please show me where I told you to stop. You know nothing about me, so the
rest of your post is, of course, crap.

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"Vito" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote
I have no argument with Crantz, various sockpuppets, or anyone saying
disgusting or hateful things. I don't have to like it, and I have just as
much right to express my opinion as they do to say it.

Yes, you certainly do, and I don't recall anyone telling you to shut up.
OTOH,
I do urge you to strive to understand that these "things" are "disgusting
and
hateful" only to you and people like you who have pavlovian responses -
responses drummed into you by your upbringing in a very artificial world.
It is
your own mind and prejudices that are hurting and disgusting you - words
cannot.
They can only trigger your own pavlovian responses. Those of us who
voided or
shed these prejudices can even enjoy jokes tht you cannot.

Did you hear about the sailors marooned on a desert island facing certain
death?
A geni pops up and offers each one a single wish. Oh, to be back in
Scotland
says Scotty and poof, there he is. I wish I was captaining a well
provisioned
100' yacht with an all-girl crew through the south Pacific wished the
Auzzi and
poof! Whine, cried the NYr. I'm so lonely! I wish all my PC friends were
here
with me ... and poof ....

Another example of someone who can't or won't think.

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"Vito" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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No one cares if it offends you. The point is that it offends the vast
majority of a people.

Naw, just the PC pukes you're familiar with - Generation X weirdos who go
catatonic if they hear a "bad" word.

I can't imagine that you would be wrong about anything.

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"Vito" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote
No, you didn't.

"Vito" wrote
I just showed where it is. That' what startd the discussion. Is Abraham
important in Jewish history? Did he not bargain God himself down from
50
to 5 souls?

Sorry but I don't have my Pentateuch handy. Try GEN 18:23-33 in the KGB.

Also, I was mistaken. I was from 50 to 10 (not 5).

Capt. JG wrote:
That's what I thought... well, gypsies are fair game. :-)

Excuse me????

So, Dave, you're saying that when you say something like jewing down
someone, this has no negative connotation beyond sight of either coast? Does
this mean that you believe people in the fly over states are uneducated or
just rude by nature? Or, is there some other justification you'd like to
give for atrocious behavior?

Or, wait, are you saying that just because a bunch of people think it's ok
to say things like this, that makes it ok to say them...

What exactly are the subtleties of which you speak? I would really like to
know.

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"Dave" wrote in message
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On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 09:26:36 -0800, "Capt. JG"
said:

There are very few subtketies with the phrase, unless you're uneducated.

The inability to appreciate such subtleties is, I suspect, the result of
the
above writer's own provincialism. There's a big world outside the right
and
left coasts, Jon.

Which silly efforts are those? Being aware of those around you? Being aware
that words can be like daggers? Being aware that it's a slippery slope
between what a few people start out saying and things like what happened in
the early part of the previous century?

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"Dave" wrote in message
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On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 09:28:21 -0800, "Capt. JG"
said:

Please explain the purpose of the "ah, errr" - what does this imply about
you I wonder.

No question in my mind about what it says about Vito. It says he has
enough
to sense to recognize, and poke a little tongue in cheek fun at, silly
efforts to avoid offending others' sensibilities.

Dave

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"Vito" wrote in message
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"Bob Crantz" wrote
It is very illegal to use racial epitaphs. ....

Reminds me of a case in Maryland some years back. A group of ... ah,
errr, ...
AfroAmericns

Jus kiddin... that's why the smilie at the end... I like gypsies... great
hats.

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"katy" wrote in message
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Capt. JG wrote:
That's what I thought... well, gypsies are fair game. :-)

Excuse me????

"Dave" wrote in message
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On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 09:37:42 -0800, "Capt. JG"
said:

I'd stop using it, at least in
their presence.

LOL. IOW, it's fine to tell Pollack jokes so long as there are
no Pollacks
around.

They never get the punch line anyway.

Scotty