On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com wrote:
--- On Mon, 6/7/10, Victor Vasiliev vasilvv@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Michael Snow wikipedia@verizon.net wrote:
If you don't know the history of racial issues in the
US, you might not
realize just how serious a subject lynching is. In
that cultural
context, it is not something to be joked about.
Your post is a brilliant example of agressive disrespect of other cultures where lynching is merely a verb which means "execution by mob" (I think if you told someone in Russia that "lyniching" is an offensive verb, he would most probably belive you said something silly). Bear in mind that only 0.55 % of the world population are sensitive about lyncing.
That post can only being seen as an example of "agressive disrespect of other cultures" by people who think happening to be born in the USA is an agressive disrespect of other cultures. Americans are people too!
Birgitte SB
This post can be seen as furthering an OT fork of this (otherwise productive) thread. Can everyone who wants to discuss the cultural sensitivities surrounding lynching please take it offlist? Thanks.
This post can be seen as the list administrator asking everyone to be cool, don't go looking for things to be offended by, and try to keep what's already an obscenely long thread on-topic.
Thanks!
Austin