From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@kohath.wanadoo.co.uk)
Date: Sun Aug 07 2005 - 19:17:44 BST
Hey DMB - chill out!!! It was precisely BECAUSE I laughed out loud at your
joke, wasn't at all offended by it etc, that it was a good point of
comparison, to bring out the underlying issue (of context). I didn't think
it was racist at all. So if the cap doesn't fit, don't wear it.
Sam
> dmb replies:
> Huh? Once again its hard to believe that you're being serious. I
> explicitly point out that I'm making a joke about sterotypes and its not a
> bigoted joke anyway. It makes fun of bigotry. Its a joke ABOUT bigotry.
> And may I remind you that this joke was a response to your charge that
> anti-theism is a form of bigotry. Just for the record, I love fish and
> chips. I had a longed for the real thing for many years, so Ant directed
> me to a perfect little shop near my hotel in Liverpool. It was a culinary
> nostalgia trip. I drink tea all the time and my teeth aren't that great
> either. You seem to be implying that my anti-bigotry joke amounts to
> racism, Sam, and this is such a stretch and is so far off the mark that
> the effort only makes you look like a rather humorless dude with poor
> reading comprehension skills. It would be slanderous if it weren't so
> ridiculous. Cut it out, will ya?
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