Noah Roberts posted:
All of them equally ignorant, offensive, and completely disparate from
what I said. It would be like comparing what you said to:
Q: What kind of person takes offense when no offense was intended?
A: A Jew.
I'm not Jewish myself, nor have I had much contact with Jews, so I am not
in a position to support or contradict any stereotypes pertaining to Jews.
Irrespective, none of that is relevant here.
If you take offence from people using "a Jew" as an example of a category
of persons, then perhaps you should ask your therapist why you feel
threatened every time Judaism is mentioned.
Should I take offence every time someone mentions Irish people, or white
people, or male people, or people who speak English, or people who aren't
disabled, or people who can swim, or people who play the guitar, or people
who drink alcohol?
Now, since what you said is exactly the same thing as that I would have
to say you're a biggot and a very ignorant person.
Noah, say and think whatever you like about me. At present, I've no respect
for you, so I've little regard.
Perhaps you parents should have sent you off to Summer camp to brush up on
your social skills?
Keep in mind of course we can replace "Jew" with any demographic of
people such as "negro" or "Christian".
YOU'RE RACIST AND ANTI-CHRISTIAN! Opps, sorry, I was in Noah-mode for a
moment there, and felt the urge to accuse people of ill-will every time
they mention a particular category of people.
You've a very immature attitude if you think a person's skin colour or
religion cannot be mentioned without causing offence.
If someone asks me to describe the man who was walking his dog, am I racist
if I say, "He was black, about 6 foot tall."?
Since you agree with this interpretation (since it is yours) I'm going
to assume that is what you actually meant and figure you're just an
ignorant racist who hates everybody.
Brilliant assumption! Good luck with that.
Based on that conclusion, I have nothing else to say to you and don't
want to hear anything you have to say.
"A kill file (also killfile, bozo bin or twit list) is a per-user file used
by some Usenet reading programs (originally Larry Wall's rn) to discard
summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some
particularly uninteresting (or unwanted) patterns of subject, author, or
other header lines.
Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill file is to arrange for that
person to be ignored by one's newsreader in the future. By extension, it
may be used for a decision to ignore the person or subject in other media.
Sometimes more than one kill file will be used. Some newsreader programs
also allow you to specify a time period to keep an author in the kill file.
Newer newsreader software often provides a more advanced form of filter
known as a score file, which can use multiple rules to determine which
articles are shown."
More to the point, is a tomato a fruit or vegetable?
HOW DARE YOU INSULT MY FATHER! My father was a tomato farmer; I can't
believe you have the audacity to mention tomatoes on this newgroup --
YOU'RE A BIGGOT!
Everybody, shun Noah for mentioning tomatoes -- I've already undergone
seventeen years of therapy to overcome psychological trauma pertaining to
my father's profession -- he must an ignorant racist who hates everybody!
