Re: A Questionable Term

[mojzes@tiger.vill.edu (tyrone slothrop)]

In article <9303151940.AA24808@whistler.sfu.ca> Fiona_McQuarrie@sfu.ca writes:
>
>I'm certainly not slagging Tyrone, who posted this quote (although I do
>have doubts about the person who wrote the original message). But I just
>wanted to suggest that when material from any source is posted, we should
>be careful about language that might be insulting to members of the group
>or outside readers.
>

very true.  when i originally reposted this i had some reservations about
it, and did, indeed, make reference  to the dubious language contained
therein.  i did, however, feel that  the information contained in the
post was valuable, despite the language.

i should point out that he was slammed on alt.exotic-music for this
post, and his responses to that indicated that he was actually clueless
about what he had said; not only did he think that he had written 
"pakistan" rather than "Paki-Land," but he had signed it "joker," and
then got offended when people refered to him as "joker" rather than 
his real name.  so i suppose it is one of those subconcious/insidious
bigotries, rather than an intentional think.  still rather uncool, either
way.
>Cheers, Fiona 
>Fiona McQuarrie
>fmcquarr@sfu.ca 
>
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tyrone,
who is odd, and only sometimes over-expressive...
:>