From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@kohath.wanadoo.co.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 26 2005 - 05:31:12 BST
Hi Mark,
Thanks for indulging me on this. The reason I asked you to unpick it was
because the earlier ones on the list had passed me by, and I was wondering
why you included the whole list. Specifically, the comment about camels
hadn't registered properly. So I agree that you have a point.
However, would you think this equally objectionable (said to me back in
March by DMB): " I mean, its not
that I hate christians or theists, I just think they're wrong. Only crooked
toothed, tea drinking, fish and chips eater like you could suggest that
bigotry has anything to do with it. (I'm actually having trouble coming up
with English sterotypes for this joke, but you get the idea. ) "
http://www.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/14084.html
The thing is, I do have crooked teeth, I drink an awful lot of tea, and
after two weeks in Asia I was dying for some fish and chips. And I also
thought it was quite funny (I find DMB funny a lot of the time). Is this
also racist? Where do we draw the boundaries? Is it just a question of
taking offence - in other words, if I had taken offence at DMB, would that
in itself have made the remarks racist?
I think the underlying concern I have is that bringing in the assertion of
racism _can_ generate more heat than light. But quite possibly I still have
racist elements in my own thinking. For example, I think a strong argument
can be made for racial profiling when assessing potential bomb threats.
Perhaps we could focus on that?
Thanks
Sam
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