Re: [NTLK] Racism: Can We Squash This?

From: Sasa (sasa.radojcic_at_xs4all.nl)
Date: Tue Mar 23 2004 - 17:23:52 PST


I have to add my 2 cents to you, Ikem:

How dare you to offend me in such a bad way that you assume that the
original poster, and with him the whole "white" list-comunity (since
they didn't respond) had the intention to purposely offend all black
list-members?

Judging your reaction your view of humanity is nothing better then the
view your are accusing others. (32 yeas are no excuse)

I for one do not give a damn about race or color. When I read the
original posting I perfectly understood what was meant with that funny
word. I do not need the excuse of "being a young listmember". I - could
have used that word as well.

In that sense you offended me by calling me white.

You must have had a pretty rough life that such an innocent word can
trigger such an outrageous reaction. (for which you have my sympathies,
I can relate to that: being bullied on school for simply being a
foreigner. And just imagine: we all have been WHITE!)

Btw, I am even more offended that you dare to compare me to any garlic
stinking frenchmen, or to those greasy italians, or those paleskinned,
english imbecils, (english as the whole island, including the scot and
welsh. Oops, I think I pissed off some people seriously (for you
americans (all of you): I made some people angry), or to those lazy
spanish, wine-slobbering spanish, short-dicked senors?
(Just to make it perfectly clear: THIS IS SARCASM!!)

Back in those days when I was programming I used to add the language
"swahili" to a drop-down box. Should I be sorry that I might have
offended any african colleague working within the 100.000+ employee
company?

No, your reaction was everything but appropriate. Next time somebody is
posting something on this list FIRST assume that the poster is a nice
person, with no intentions to offend somebody (for a related issue:
search the archives on the word poutine and be surprised). And second:
see first.

I for one second the postings from Tony Kan, Eric Strobel, Miro as in
"Yes the world is bad, there are still issues, and it will take another
4, 5, maybe 6 generations for humanity to come closer. But EVERYBODY
(including you, Ikem) has to do their little bit to get there.

As far as I am concerned I never seen any racist posting on this list.
Conceder this: many poster are not native english speakers, and things
typed here can very easily be misunderstood. Again: FIRST consider the
poster a nice person, than react.

Greetings to all humans and aliens on this list

Sascha

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