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- From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner)
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- Subject: Re: Manly Geoff Bronner (Re: RFD: soc.culture.native.american)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.200434.17982@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 20:04:34 GMT
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- In <EMCGUIRE.92Dec23093005@fuller.intellection.com> emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire) writes:
-
- >Be serious, it's hard for me to type and laugh at the same time.
- >What's your damage? Who's being rude? It was rude of Brian to foist
- >his minority view of the issue on me and everyone with his comment
- >"what we want here is soc.culture.native,"
-
- Actually, the 'we' refered to the people in the current discussion, not
- Native Americans. If you missed that then you are dense.
-
- >and it was rude of you to
- >name me a fool. If you think that punchline is rude, then the joke
- >has not been told to you properly by a Native American and you are
- >compounding ignorance with hostility. But the point of the punchline
- >was to slam Brian's imputation of his view to everyone, not to label
- >him a white man, and I doubt that you missed the point.
-
- I didn't miss the point, but that really isn't the point. Throwing a
- racial comment like that (and it is, no matter whay you may think) into a
- discussion like this is foolish and rude. So I stand by my earlier post.
-
- >It is
- >ridiculous for you to defend his race and his manliness, and I'm
- >unimpressed that you dragged his Nation into it in the process. If he
- >takes offense, I hope he confronts me himself. He certainly doesn't
- >need you to fight his battles for him.
-
- No he doesn't, I'm sure he'll have a comment or two when he gets back from
- vacation.
-
- >Your posturing is more
- >egotistical and overbearing than his comment and his antagonistic
- >attitude in general towards the consensus forming on the new group,
-
- If you don't like his attitude then address that in email. Some of his
- points are valid (I don't agree with him 100% but so what...) and if they
- aren't addressed now they could come back to screw up the vote later.
-
- >and I'm not surprised to hear that the two of you sleep in the same
- >house. It's obvious from your signature that you want absolute power
- >to bludgeon to death anyone who doesn't defer to you.
-
- Oh, that's just too cute. Now we're even because you just gave me the
- laugh of the day.
-
- -Geoff
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