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[Jonathan Lighter]

"The police are using illegal weapondry."

JL


On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> "The prosecuting attorney has shown some biasness."
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> 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
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> > specific ideas like "thought of as different" or "discriminated against"
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> > "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."
> >
> > 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 <
> > wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
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> > > wrote:
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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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> > > -Wilson
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> > > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> > > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > > -Mark Twain
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