Posted by SLS on June 22, 2009, at 21:38:08
In reply to Re: Please rephrase, posted by Sigismund on June 22, 2009, at 20:26:45
> >With this in mind, do you think you could rephrase your retraction to cover more than the white people on this board?
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> I see that I have missed the point. 'Present company excepted' meant that I didn't mean it personally.
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> There have not been too many people from non-Anglo backgrounds here. There was a (Chinese) chap from Beijing recently, and we have had a couple of Babblers from the Indian subcontinent and Latin America, and I hope we have more. Of course I wish them well.
This might be one of those instances where less is more. I think it might be undesirable, if not uncivil, to make such generalizations about a specific race or culture or group of people. Besides, I'm not sure that anyone has a monopoly on crimes against humanity.
- Scott
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