From: Stuart Moore Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Racism (Re: Announcing Allegro 3.11) Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 19:35:17 -0800 Organization: University College Worcester Lines: 38 Message-ID: <36DF50F5.4FC7@my-dejanews.com> References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 32 DOT 19990303120656 DOT 00933100 AT pop DOT globalserve DOT net> <36dd7adc DOT 0 AT nnrp1 DOT news DOT uk DOT psi DOT net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.83.249.70 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nellg.worc.ac.uk 920576256 2941 194.83.249.70 (4 Mar 1999 19:37:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT nellg DOT worc DOT ac DOT uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Mar 1999 19:37:36 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (Win16; I) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Ya'qub wrote: > > Paul Derbyshire wrote in message > <3 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 32 DOT 19990303120656 DOT 00933100 AT pop DOT globalserve DOT net>... > >At 11:22 AM 3/1/99 +0200, you wrote: > >>There are certain problems, Paul, that smileys cannot take care of. > > > >I disagree. > > > >>...ethnic origin... > > > >Fallacy: you are introducing something irrelevant into the discussion, and > >then attempting to "widen" the category of something to include that > >something irrelevant and then "narrow" and focus on the irrelevancy that is > >not even at issue. Why you are doing this, I don't know, but at no time did > >I say anyuthing about any ethnicities! > > Can you then enlighten us about the comment you made following one of my > posts in which you mentioned a dictionary of some sort. It seems that you > still don't get the many words of advice that you have been given regarding > *good manners* and that you are very keen to have it YOUR way even though > both DJ and Eli have asked you to show some respect to others. May I remind > you that you have not even had the decency to apologize for insulting nearly > a *quarter* of the earth's population in one of your previous post. > Ya'qub Is Paul racist, then? It sounds as if he is. Racism is a stupid, pointless thing. Anyone who practises this on a newsgroup should be ostracised, and (in the case of moderated newsgroups) barred. How do you plead, Derbyshire? Bye, -- Stuart Moore.