xvp "ethnic reference" was Re: Smoking Rant over and done

[tedchee]

In a message dated 1/12/2003 6:18:02 PM Pacific Standard Time,
vpFREE@yahoogroups.com writes:

  Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 18:58:31 -0000
Subject: xvp "ethnic reference" was Re: Smoking Rant over and done

I wonder how many would have been offended had the chief said "Dirty
Jew" or "Dirty N*****"? Maybe offending a person of Asian ancestry
carries less weight than someone of Jewish or African ancestry in
this group? Since only myself and Frank objected to the slang I have
to wonder.

WW

Since it was a smoking topic I used the "Page Down" button to skip past most
of those posts & didn't notice until you brought it up then went back to read
it.

I'm Chinese. I would have been offended at the time.

Given the habit of not reading or posting for days at a time, I was able to
follow the thread with some hindsight.

It was bad judgment on Chief's part but he made a sincere apology and I'd
suggest we forgive him his mistake and go on.

If smokers were an ethnic group, I think worse things have been said about
them. (I'm not a smoker, drinker, carouser but have recently become a swearer
as I count down the number of 4-card royals which disappear into the ether.)

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  From: "W Wilson <vivalv2001@yahoo.com>" <vivalv2001@yahoo.com>

[adr]

I wasn't either "smoker, drinker, carouser..." until I went one period of time, a couple of years back, and had no RF for two years. <g> Recently, that has been well reversed. If I could, I'd pass some of my good luck to you.

ADR

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At 01:50 PM 1/13/03, you wrote:

I'm not a smoker, drinker, carouser but have recently become a swearer
as I count down the number of 4-card royals which disappear into the ether.