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[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/18/2014 03:47 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

>"The police are using illegal weapondry."

They haven't yet used water hoses.

JSB


>JL
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>On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> > Poster:       Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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> > "The prosecuting attorney has shown some biasness."
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> > JL
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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
> > more
> > > specific ideas like "thought of as different" or "discriminated against"
> > or
> > > "victimized by authority" or worse.
> > >
> > > 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."
> > >
> > >  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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