Should we ban...

[Enola]

"I am Everyday People".

Not true, not true. You are very special.


And I will second the question. Who is this Gino you all speak of? He can't be all that bad.

 

[printhog]

well this post was a minute of my life i cant get back.

 

[HDvinyl]

Instead of starting a thread, send Gino a bunch of vulgar PM's(like he LOVES to do).

 

[Bly]

Maybe create a Safe Space forum that Gino can't access for the sensitive among us.

 

[bob]

You can try to play your superior linguistics and semantics argument on all you want, but it doesn't excuse the use of a highly derogatory slur against a member's ethnicity.

We are all the same species, which is subdivided by race.

I'll stick with Merriam-Webster in subset 2a & b on the subject.

Definition of race
1 :a breeding stock of animals
2 a :a family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same stock
b :a class or kind of people unified by shared interests, habits, or characteristics
3 a :an actually or potentially interbreeding group within a species; also :a taxonomic category (such as a subspecies) representing such a group
b :breed
c :a category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits

'Superior linguistics'? No, merely a vocabulary adequate to allow me to express my thoughts. You might want to look into that.

Definition of 'Dictionary':
A compendium of descriptions of word usage in vogue at the time of publishing.

The operative word is 'description', not 'definition'. A dictionary defines nothing. You have come down with an acute fallacy, 'Agumentum ad lexicon'. Which, if it isn't a formal fallacy, it damn well ought to be.

To reiterate: There is one race, human. The sooner mouth breathers such as you appear to be, stop keeping score based on unalterable physical appearance the sooner we can move on to important things. Moreover, it's not 'ethicity', whatever that might mean', it's 'culture' and being such makes it fair game. One can always shed a culture, or at least those features one finds it uncomfortable. Your choice to stay or go, you live with it.

 

[Johnny Best]

Who's Gino? Sounds like any other goombah to me.

I don't think Gino is a goombah, He told me his parents were Romanian gypsies. They migrated here during the German purge during WWII and settled in Reading. His father painted signs in the back and his mother read cards in the front of the shop.
I agree with Bly, there are some sensitive people among us. "Can't we all just get along"?

 

[2B]

This thread has spiraled down enough.

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