On 7 June 2010 14:55, 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.
Michael's post, by claiming inflammatory content that was not actually present at all, is the sort of thing that someone would post attempting to derail a discussion. I don't think that was his intent, but he still should have known better.
- d.