On 2/17/06, BJörn Lindqvist bjourne@gmail.com wrote:
Where I live, any of the following posters would "provoke righteous outrage from a fairly large proportion of the community: "I'm a pedophile", "I'm a Nazi", "I'm a socialist", "I'm a racist", "I'm a communist", "I'm a Jew", "I'm a Muslim", "I'm a American", "I'm a
"I'm a Muslim" is offensive? Eep.
I did not write that. I wrote that such a poster would "provoke righteous outrage from a fairly large proportion of the community." Muslim, just like all the other epithets I listed, is information and carries no moral value.
"Jew", "Muslim", and "American" are now "epithets", similar to "Nazi", "racist" and "pedophile"? And there's "no moral value" associated with being a pedophile or a racist or a Nazi?
Amazing.
Jay.