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Tomás Ó hÉilidhe
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This is an off-topic post for "comp.lang.c" and I would like to
apologise to the readers for inflicting this post on the group. Nobody
here is obligated to read this post or to respond to it.
I would like to respond to Mr Richard Heathfield's public accusations
of racism against me on this newsgroup, and also to his unrelenting
attempts at character-assassination on this newsgroup. His most recent
attempt took place on December 13th 2008 in the thread entitled
"exectuable file runs on some computers, not all". His post can be
viewed here:
http://groups.google.ie/group/comp.lang.c/msg/639389cb4eed0c46
From reading Mr Heathfield's posts, one would get the impression that
he considers himself to be a moral, ethical, polite, well-educated,
intelligent, knowledgeable and professional man. Also he considers
himself to be a devout Christian, a religion emphasizing kindness and
compassion toward fellow people. When conducting himself in an online
discussion, Mr Heathfield exhaults himself to a moral highground based
on these premises. What flies in the face of this is his malicious
behaviour of attempting to character-assassinate people. On December
13th 2008, he went to the bother of verbatim quoting a post of mine
from many months ago; he sat at his computer and did a search to find
that post of mine, and then replicated that post here in an attempt to
character-assassinate me. It is clear that his actions took effort and
were driven by a sadistic impulse. I wouldn't be surprised if he had
many posts by many different people saved to his hard disk and
archived for use in future character-assassination endeavors.
Mr Heathfield presently has me in his killfile for what he has
publicly cited on this newsgroup as "racism". Before I begin, I would
like to clarify the term "racism". The term "racism" is quite
ambiguous nowadays because it is used by so many different socio-
economic classes in so many different contexts. The word is used by
intellectual and non-intellectual people alike. For instance, you have
the "racism" of idiots like the Ku Klux Klan who hate black people
simply because they're black and no other reason (this particular kind
of "racism" is considered taboo by many people in the world including
myself). Then you have the "racism" of people such as those who have
had many negative experiences with people of a given race in a given
area, and have learned to avoid those people in that area. These two
kinds of "racism" are so far separated from each other than I no
longer use the term "racism" at all because it is so ambiguous. There
was a time not too long ago that I would consider myself "racist", in
fact I even publicly declared myself to be "racist against Roma
gypsies" on this very newsgroup, but since then I have put more
thought into the term and have changed my opinion.
Some months ago, I composed an off-topic rant of a post on this
newsgroup which mentioned Roma gypsies. I was aggravated at the time,
and I apologise for using this newsgroup as a vent. I have no excuse
for my actions, I'm sorry and it won't happen again.
In my original off-topic rant of a post that mentioned Roma gypsies, I
heaped negative criticism on Roma gypsies, criticism which stemmed
from my own personal direct observations and experiences with them. I
did not criticise these people because of their race or ancestry, but
rather because of their unsavoury actions which I described in detail.
If I had had pleasant observations and experiences with these people,
I would not have given negative criticism. The fact that Roma gypsies
belong to a different "race" than me is purely coincidental, and I
just as easily criticise people of my own race (for instance I have
many times criticised the people who lived within a mile of me in
Ireland who spent their weekend nights joyriding cars they robbed from
their own housing estate).
I am originally from the country of Ireland in Western Europe.
Currently I am living in the country of Laos in Southeast Asia. I have
experienced two totally different cultures, with totally different
races of people and different spoken languages. If I were racist then
I would have a difficult time settling into a foreign culture,
adopting foreign customs and learning a foreign language. Thankfully
though I am thriving here and having the best days of my life.
Regarding the criticism I made against Roma gypsies, well I forfeit
this opportunity to retract it. The criticism I gave was truthful,
unexaggerated and based upon my own personal observations and
experiences with these people. In my life I will continue to criticise
groups of people who act in ways unbecoming a human, regardless of
race, hairstyle, spoken accent, or any identifiable feature.
To be blunt, just because a people is of a different race than you,
that doesn't mean they're out of bounds for criticism. I would even go
on to criticise the people who attempt to condone the actions of other
peoples simply because those peoples are of a different race and
should somehow receive preferential treatment which exempts them from
criticism. This preferential treatment is "racism".
Mr Heathfield is an intelligent, well-educated, knowledgeable man, and
he is very apt at using professionalism to disguise his sadistic
intentions. He has trolled thi newsgroup of comp.lang.c for many
years, and for the most part his trolling has gone unobserved. I would
like to think in a perfect world that no amount of expertise or
knowledge should excuse malicious and hostile behaviour.
Thank you for your attention.
Tomás Ó hÉilidhe
This is an off-topic post for "comp.lang.c" and I would like to
apologise to the readers for inflicting this post on the group. Nobody
here is obligated to read this post or to respond to it.
I would like to respond to Mr Richard Heathfield's public accusations
of racism against me on this newsgroup, and also to his unrelenting
attempts at character-assassination on this newsgroup. His most recent
attempt took place on December 13th 2008 in the thread entitled
"exectuable file runs on some computers, not all". His post can be
viewed here:
http://groups.google.ie/group/comp.lang.c/msg/639389cb4eed0c46
From reading Mr Heathfield's posts, one would get the impression that
he considers himself to be a moral, ethical, polite, well-educated,
intelligent, knowledgeable and professional man. Also he considers
himself to be a devout Christian, a religion emphasizing kindness and
compassion toward fellow people. When conducting himself in an online
discussion, Mr Heathfield exhaults himself to a moral highground based
on these premises. What flies in the face of this is his malicious
behaviour of attempting to character-assassinate people. On December
13th 2008, he went to the bother of verbatim quoting a post of mine
from many months ago; he sat at his computer and did a search to find
that post of mine, and then replicated that post here in an attempt to
character-assassinate me. It is clear that his actions took effort and
were driven by a sadistic impulse. I wouldn't be surprised if he had
many posts by many different people saved to his hard disk and
archived for use in future character-assassination endeavors.
Mr Heathfield presently has me in his killfile for what he has
publicly cited on this newsgroup as "racism". Before I begin, I would
like to clarify the term "racism". The term "racism" is quite
ambiguous nowadays because it is used by so many different socio-
economic classes in so many different contexts. The word is used by
intellectual and non-intellectual people alike. For instance, you have
the "racism" of idiots like the Ku Klux Klan who hate black people
simply because they're black and no other reason (this particular kind
of "racism" is considered taboo by many people in the world including
myself). Then you have the "racism" of people such as those who have
had many negative experiences with people of a given race in a given
area, and have learned to avoid those people in that area. These two
kinds of "racism" are so far separated from each other than I no
longer use the term "racism" at all because it is so ambiguous. There
was a time not too long ago that I would consider myself "racist", in
fact I even publicly declared myself to be "racist against Roma
gypsies" on this very newsgroup, but since then I have put more
thought into the term and have changed my opinion.
Some months ago, I composed an off-topic rant of a post on this
newsgroup which mentioned Roma gypsies. I was aggravated at the time,
and I apologise for using this newsgroup as a vent. I have no excuse
for my actions, I'm sorry and it won't happen again.
In my original off-topic rant of a post that mentioned Roma gypsies, I
heaped negative criticism on Roma gypsies, criticism which stemmed
from my own personal direct observations and experiences with them. I
did not criticise these people because of their race or ancestry, but
rather because of their unsavoury actions which I described in detail.
If I had had pleasant observations and experiences with these people,
I would not have given negative criticism. The fact that Roma gypsies
belong to a different "race" than me is purely coincidental, and I
just as easily criticise people of my own race (for instance I have
many times criticised the people who lived within a mile of me in
Ireland who spent their weekend nights joyriding cars they robbed from
their own housing estate).
I am originally from the country of Ireland in Western Europe.
Currently I am living in the country of Laos in Southeast Asia. I have
experienced two totally different cultures, with totally different
races of people and different spoken languages. If I were racist then
I would have a difficult time settling into a foreign culture,
adopting foreign customs and learning a foreign language. Thankfully
though I am thriving here and having the best days of my life.
Regarding the criticism I made against Roma gypsies, well I forfeit
this opportunity to retract it. The criticism I gave was truthful,
unexaggerated and based upon my own personal observations and
experiences with these people. In my life I will continue to criticise
groups of people who act in ways unbecoming a human, regardless of
race, hairstyle, spoken accent, or any identifiable feature.
To be blunt, just because a people is of a different race than you,
that doesn't mean they're out of bounds for criticism. I would even go
on to criticise the people who attempt to condone the actions of other
peoples simply because those peoples are of a different race and
should somehow receive preferential treatment which exempts them from
criticism. This preferential treatment is "racism".
Mr Heathfield is an intelligent, well-educated, knowledgeable man, and
he is very apt at using professionalism to disguise his sadistic
intentions. He has trolled thi newsgroup of comp.lang.c for many
years, and for the most part his trolling has gone unobserved. I would
like to think in a perfect world that no amount of expertise or
knowledge should excuse malicious and hostile behaviour.
Thank you for your attention.
Tomás Ó hÉilidhe