05-28-2002, 11:38 PM | #61 |
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05-28-2002, 11:41 PM | #62 |
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Hey, the Beatles are good! Anyway... Back on topic; What's with the discrimination of Jews? Last I checked, they were amongst some of the more lenient sects of religion...
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05-29-2002, 12:23 AM | #63 |
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scapegoats and jealously
they are a group that propers because they stick together and value education which breeds success
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About Eowyn, Does anyone know what her alias Dernhelm means? She was kown as dernhelm because of her exclaimation when she realized that the rider's headgear was heavy and obscured her sight. 'Dern Helm" Culled from Entmoot From Kirinski 57 and Wayfarer. |
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05-29-2002, 02:18 AM | #65 |
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RE mentioned retribution/revenge maybe its all pay back for the slaughter of canaan
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About Eowyn, Does anyone know what her alias Dernhelm means? She was kown as dernhelm because of her exclaimation when she realized that the rider's headgear was heavy and obscured her sight. 'Dern Helm" Culled from Entmoot From Kirinski 57 and Wayfarer. Last edited by afro-elf : 05-29-2002 at 02:19 AM. |
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Retribution/Revenge gets really, really ridiculous after a certain point. . .
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05-29-2002, 07:19 AM | #67 |
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It is so refreshing to read these pages. If people just take people individually and not look at color we could do so much. The music etc. industry has done so much to destroy what little progress had been begun that I wonder what our future is now.
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There are several comments I want to make on this thread. First anyone that truly knows me - knows that I am one of the least predudiced people around. Of course anyone that over hears some of my joking around with various friends would think I was extremely bigotted I suppose.
For instance - my friend in Canada - who is one of, if not my best friend - she's (American) Indian. I used to always ask her to come down - and then mention that we need some rain or make other various racial jokes with her. But she jokes back and we both feel political correctness is stupid. I had worked with someone in Seymour Indiana. Seymour doesn't have a lot of blacks in town, but when RR Donnelley bought the company they moved a lot of blacks in to satisfy the Affirmative Action quotas. Grace, who I became friends with, was one of these people that was relocated to Seymour. I used to joke with her that she satified two of Donnelley's quota requirements as a black woman. In NY there is this black miltant person at the corner around 42nd and Broadway - it's where WWF NY is. He is always standing there with his followers giving speeches about the "evil white man keeping the blacks down". I really want to go up to him and ask him why doesn't he either get a job - or go into the schools and TEACH black students how to write a resume, how to go for job interviews, how to use a computer, how to write proper English and how to speak proper English. Instead I have to hear how it's "my" fault everytime I walk down Broadway. That leads me into another point - I do not know how speaking PROPER English is forcing someone to "become" white or is concidered by blacks as "selling out". I would like to learn French, Italian and Spanish - I would like to be able to speak, write and communicate in them properly (without an American accent). This does not mean I'm a sell out. Speaking properly in a language has nothing to do with ethnicity - it has to do with being able to properly communicate. Blacks (I will not use the hyphenation of African-American) have a lot of leaders that just want to make everyone that follows them believe they are a victim. When someone in "their society" such as Condoleeza Rice or Colin Powell "make it" they're concidered to have sold out. Why aren't they held up as role models? I had seen Condoleeza Rice give a speech and I had written to her - this was when she was Provost at (can't remember the University right now) - but she took the time to write me back. If she ever gives a speech at Princeton - I will definetly try to see her. My high school graduation party was almost destroyed by my grandmother's bigotted boyfriend. (He had escaped from Germany to America at the age of 12 by himself and his family had been killed in the concentration camps - he wasn't Jewish though, so it was always hard for me to understand how HE could be so unaccepting of people.) I showed people my prom pictures and one of my friends, Preston Robinson who is black, was in the picture with Jill who was white. My grandmother's boyfriend told me in a disgusted voice - that it was disgusting that he should be with her. I went off on him and my father told me that I should learn to take constructive criticism. I yelled back to my father that bigotry is not constructive critism and I didn't have to listen to an a$$hole. The thing is - Preston Robinson came to the prom by himself, Jill's date threw up all over our table and so the photographer just stood them like that in our table picture (they were just friends). But I didn't tell anyone that - because it didn't matter. Anyway - Preston never went out with a black person in the 4 years I was in school with him and it didn't matter. He went out with every other ethinic person - including white girls. My grandmother's bf would have died if he knew who I thought was the most beautiful girl my school - Natalie who was black (well actually part black). But that stuff didn't matter at my school at all and I had never experienced anyone being shunned because of their ethnicity. It wasn't until we moved to Indiana where I really saw prejudism, both religious and ethnic prejudism. Personally - Indiana was way too white and chirstian for me. I really needed to get back to New Jersey for the diversity.
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05-29-2002, 01:21 PM | #72 |
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I'm quite proud of my Jewish heritage, and if you call me a self-hating Jew for not agreeing with Israeli doctrines I'll kick your Gentile arse
Oh and the Beatles talked about sex plenty of times thankyouverymuch. "Why don't we do it in the road?" "Everybody's got something to hide cept for me and my monkey" and who could forget the oooh oooh eeh eeh at the end of Lovely Rita, Meter Maid? |
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05-29-2002, 02:51 PM | #74 |
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Not to mention Norwegian Wood...
And the drug references, ooh eeeh oooh.... "I'd love to turrrrrrn yooooou oooonnn...."
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Anyway, I pretty much agree with what everyone else is saying.
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I'm bringing this thread back because most everyone who originally posted here is gone, and I would like to hear some new opinions. I also have something to say involving this article.
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Another example of the silliness of PC-ism...
(IMO, PC-ism is really just a logical consequence of the false materialistic, naturalistic worldview, and its existence is not to be wondered at - it's just to be laughed at, mainly, and wondered at - I mean, the lengths they go to to deny reality are just amazing! Just shows you how much "faith" the "non-religious" people really DO have - they leave us "religious" people in the dust!) Pretty soon we'll get a movie of the Brothers Karamazov with a woman playing Alyosha, etc. etc. (and I mean playing Alyosha AS a woman, not a woman dressed up as a man).
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I totally agree and Rian has it right on too. It was written "then" and to change it "now" because of political correctness, demeans the authors intention and changes the whole perspective of the novel.
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the trouble is political correctness gets taken too far, PC was a balance to weigh out bigotry, now you can't say anything without someone jumping you
i have some french friends, and we often joke about "froggies" and so on, but the point is all of it is made in jest Marcus Brigstocke wrote in G2 today (paraphrasing someone else) Quote:
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