<div>thanks, Anthea,</div>
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<div>I'll take your suggestion and use something like [FORWARDED MATERIAL, NOT SENDER'S OWN VIEWS].</div>
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<div>I also agree that we need to know where the xenophobes are, and what they're saying. I don't believe</div>
<div>in taking what I call a "nicey-nicey" approach, and acting like everything is wonderful, and everybody</div>
<div>agrees with me/us.</div>
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<div>HS<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Anthea Fraser Gupta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:A.F.Gupta@leeds.ac.uk">A.F.Gupta@leeds.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Don't be too careful, Hal!<br><br>It IS cool to send this sort of material. It is vital that we know that there are xenophobic bigots around (in all communities). We need to read offensive materials. Otherwise, how do we know what we should address?<br>
<br>It's always clear to me what are the forwarded materials and what are the things under a sender's own name, but maybe, for the sake of members new to lists, we need to have the forwarded materials beginning with something like:<br>
<br>[FORWARDED MATERIAL, NOT SENDER'S OWN VIEWS]<br><br>Anthea<br>* * * * *<br>Anthea Fraser Gupta (Dr)<br>School of English, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT<br><<a href="http://www.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/afg" target="_blank">www.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/afg</a><<a href="http://www.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/afg" target="_blank">http://www.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/afg</a>>><br>
* * * * *<br><br>________________________________<br>From: lgpolicy-list-bounces+a.f.gupta=<a href="http://leeds.ac.uk/" target="_blank">leeds.ac.uk</a>@<a href="http://groups.sas.upenn.edu/" target="_blank">groups.sas.upenn.edu</a> [lgpolicy-list-bounces+a.f.gupta=<a href="http://leeds.ac.uk/" target="_blank">leeds.ac.uk</a>@<a href="http://groups.sas.upenn.edu/" target="_blank">groups.sas.upenn.edu</a>] On Behalf Of Harold Schiffman [<a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a>]<br>
Sent: 05 April 2010 18:13<br>To: Language Policy List<br>Subject: Re: [lg policy] letters to representatives: lANGUAGE POLICY<br>
<div class="im"><br>All:<br><br>There was no signature on this letter; it was being forwarded to the world by the member of<br>Congress. I didn't notice the lack of a signature until I had sent it. I'll be more careful<br>
in the future.<br><br>I thought it useful to demonstrate that some members of Congress think it's cool to<br>make it known that they support this kind of xenophobia.<br><br>HS<br><br></div>
<div class="im">On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Ofelia Garcia <<a href="mailto:ogarcia@gc.cuny.edu">ogarcia@gc.cuny.edu</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:ogarcia@gc.cuny.edu">ogarcia@gc.cuny.edu</a>>> wrote:<br>Where is the signature on this letter? Is this appropriate material to post? I don't send my personal letters to this group. If this is the kind of posting that we're getting, then I would want my name removed from this list. It is also MY country.<br>
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from Wisconsin.<br><br>lANGUAGE POLICY<br><br>To:<br>President Barack Obama<br>Rep. Tammy Baldwin<br>Sen. Herbert Kohl<br>Sen. Russ Feingold<br><br>January 29, 2010<br><br>We want English to be our official language. Immigrants who come to<br>
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learn our language, you are allowing them to set up little foreign<br>communities inside our country and not assimilate into our society. We<br>are wasting Billions of our school systems money to teach foreigners<br>in their own language. Stop catering to foreigners and start working<br>
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