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[Jonathan Lighter]

"The prosecuting attorney has shown some biasness."

JL


On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> It seems to compress into one short-circuited pseudo-sociological mass more
> specific ideas like "thought of as different" or "discriminated against" or
> "victimized by authority" or worse.
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> Are Aleuts, for example, "othered" by non-Aleuts?  Beats me, but if so it
> can't be good. Nor would it be easy to debate such an assertion. Any ethnic
> designation, including self-designation, presupposes some degree of
> "otherness" from, you know, the "other."
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> 1991 in Google Books (not checked): "Lesbian and gay readers...most likely
> have always felt the sting of invisibility and the persistent experience of
> being othered in everything from MacDonald's' ads to Jacques Lacan."
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>  JL
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> On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 11:56 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Jonathan Lighter <
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> > > "Black people in this country are constantly othered."
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> > Damn! A brother can't catch a break! ;-)
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