Capt. JG wrote:
Jus kiddin... that's why the smilie at the end... I like gypsies... great
hats.

You mean scarves....

Dave wrote:
On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 10:16:30 -0500, katy
said:


Callousness destroys and leads to usage of slang
and jingoism that affronts and destroys.


Jingoism?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingoism

I'm just using left-wing jargon. I wouldn't want to shock people. :-)

So, answer my questions.

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"Dave" wrote in message
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I suggest that your use of the term "fly over states" speaks volumes.

QED.


On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 10:47:09 -0800, "Capt. JG"
said:

So, Dave, you're saying that when you say something like jewing down
someone, this has no negative connotation beyond sight of either coast?
Does
this mean that you believe people in the fly over states are uneducated or
just rude by nature? Or, is there some other justification you'd like to
give for atrocious behavior?

Or, wait, are you saying that just because a bunch of people think it's ok
to say things like this, that makes it ok to say them...

What exactly are the subtleties of which you speak? I would really like to
know.

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"Dave" wrote in message
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On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 09:26:36 -0800, "Capt. JG"
said:

There are very few subtketies with the phrase, unless you're uneducated.

The inability to appreciate such subtleties is, I suspect, the result of
the
above writer's own provincialism. There's a big world outside the right
and
left coasts, Jon.

Umm.. yeah.

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"katy" wrote in message
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Capt. JG wrote:
Jus kiddin... that's why the smilie at the end... I like gypsies... great
hats.

You mean scarves....

And, you know this how?

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"Dave" wrote in message
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On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 09:37:42 -0800, "Capt. JG"
said:

I'd stop using it, at least in
their presence.

LOL. IOW, it's fine to tell Pollack jokes so long as there are no Pollacks
around.

Hahahaa... or you don't know they never get it.

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"Scotty" wrote in message
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"Dave" wrote in message
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On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 09:37:42 -0800, "Capt. JG"
said:

I'd stop using it, at least in
their presence.

LOL. IOW, it's fine to tell Pollack jokes so long as there are
no Pollacks
around.

They never get the punch line anyway.

Scotty

I'm sure you can't. Not my fault. Seem pretty clear to me. It sure makes it
easy for you when you don't include the pervious commnet.

Here it is again:

Dave" wrote in message
news
On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 10:16:30 -0500, katy

said:

There is nothing wrong with a modicum of sensitivity to
your fellow man.

No dispute about that. I suggest that individual sensitivity to one's
fellow
man is far preferable to groupthink of the type Jon seems to propose. I
find
it unfortunate that increasingly a rule-based "there oughta be a law"
approach is replacing other social controls such as learned individual
sensitivity.

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"Dave" wrote in message
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On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 09:39:42 -0800, "Capt. JG"
said:

What group think is that. Picture yourself in a crowded room. You're
talking
in a loud voice, because it's noisy, and you use that phrase. Do you think
that it would be group think to imagine that it might be offensive to a
good
percentage of the people in the room? Let's say it's a room full of
lawyers.

Sorry, Jon, can't respond. I can't derive any meaning from the above
stream
of words other than that you're angry.

"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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Which silly efforts are those? Being aware of those around you? Being
aware that words can be like daggers? Being aware that it's a slippery
slope between what a few people start out saying and things like what
happened in the early part of the previous century?

Jon... you're a homosexual!

Ganz... You're GAY!

Jon... you're Effeminate!

Ganz... you type with a Lisp!

CM

"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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So, Dave, you're saying that when you say something like jewing down
someone, this has no negative connotation beyond sight of either coast?

Heh Ganzy... think you'd get a better deal from a Jew.... a Leb.... or a
Jap?

CM

Once again, you didn't include the context. Here it is again. I'm being very
specific. Feel free to comment intelligently if possible.

Being aware that it's a slippery slope between what a few people start out
saying and things like what
happened in the early part of the previous century?


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"Dave" wrote in message
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On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 10:48:42 -0800, "Capt. JG"
said:

it's a slippery slope

"Slippery slope"; "camel's nose under the tent"; "give 'em an inch and
they'll take a mile""--these are the kinds of arguments one hears from
those
whose arguments as to the matter under discussion have become
insupportable.