Re: The End

diarrheamadman69 · Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:56:46 -0800

Umm, Andrew?

Thank you for e-mailing me
personally. The way that you announced it on the general
board was perhaps high-handed and arrogant, but I
suppose it is for the best that such an exchange not be
conducted in public.

I really don't see how you can
have claim to have read my posts and come up with the,
forgive me, but drivel that you did. First of all, and
finally, my post was general, as I was not even aware of
your existence (forgive me!), but your response was
pretty durned personal. 

Now, a
Quote:

A-"I was worried when I posted about the "ebonics
class" that maybe it would turn into something stupid.
Now, it has."

That's pretty much calling my
thoughts worthless, which you underline by saying that my
comments "weren't much" in your personal
correspondence.

Also, you seem to think that you can unload accusations
(say of excessive PC-ism) and by making them somewat
vague, evade the charge that you meant it. 

I'm
kind of a Troll? do you mean a gnome?

or,
skipping around, let's take this GEM:

It is
humorous not because it makes fun of the way black people
talk (which would be racism), but because it
exaggerates to the point where any connection to reality
becomes shady at best (which is the whole point of
humor). 

Now, you are really on thin ice here,
sir. You cannot seriously believe that there was no
element of "making fun of the way black people talk" in
those lame posts, which would be, by YOUR definition,
racism. (not mine; but that's a different
issue).

Even your discussion of humor is perhaps superficial,
as you don't have to be the Sigmund Freud of "jokes
and their relation to the unconsiousness" to realize
that jokes can punish, can have aggressive content and
intent. Do you really mean that jokes about fat people,
for instance, don't sometimes mean what they say,
that fat people are ridiculous, weak-willed, and
marginal?

For what it's worth, the only black person that I
showed the set of posts to had a reaction that I cannot
print here. i don't think he will be attending any NAQT
events in the near future, however. 

I could go
on, but I think i will close by repeating that I
think that you assume that comments were aimed at you
that really had nothing to do with you, whomever you
are. You seem to spend a lot of time personally
explaining that you are not a racist, which seems irrelevant
to the points that I made about the post and the
general culture of racial trash-talk, that exists at some
QB events. I defended free speech and expression,
but maintained that people who talk should be
responsible,