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Re: "Sambo's" etymology [was: California dining advice needed.]

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From: Geoff Miller
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:56
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Sloopy  <sloopy@hangon.xyz> writes:

: So it's frowned upon to say bad things about [B,b]lack people,
: but I note that it's still socially acceptable to use insin-
: uations of homosexuality as an insult.  Fascinating...

> There's no insinuation of homosexuality involved in an insulting
> way.

With such shameless, bald-faced disingenuousness, you could only
be a liberal.


> I'm simply pointing out that they guy sounds more like a jilted 
> lover than anything else.

Too bad mental gymnastics aren't an Olympic sport.  You'd be a 
gold medalist fer sure.  


> Would it make your politically correct self feel better if I
> were heterocentric and said he was trying to pick up on a 
> black girl and got turned down?

Politically correct?  _Moi?_  Surely you geste, Beau.  I don't
particularly care if you insult anybody.  I was merely pointing
out an interesting bit of inconsistency about how the more, ah,
sensitive among us can be counted on to bristle when certain 
protected groups are conceptually wielded as insults, but not
when others are.  I'm sure you'd never darkly (heh) suggest that
Tim was black, for instance.



Geoff

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From: geoffm@u1.netgate.net (Geoff Miller)
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Subject: Re: "Sambo's" etymology [was: California dining advice needed.]
Date: 10 Feb 2004 10:56:19 -0800
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