[Ads-l] Now in your hands, the the key to the "singularity"...

[Jonathan Lighter]

The buzz in college was that "Oriental" is Occident-centric, i.e.,
racist.  Why? Because East Asian cultures differ considerably and
cannot be lumped together.

Also, "the Orient" is an exotic Euro-American construct.

JL

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JL

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at mst.edu> wrote:
> Hmmm. What's this all about?  I've been a long-time member of this list
> and don't remember any racist messages being sent.  Racist terms may
> occasionally appear as part of a discussion on language, but I don't remember
> them every appearing with a racist intent (e.g., anti-black, anti-Oriental).
>
> Gerald Cohen
>
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> why choose to be racist when you can choose to be a decent human being?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Jun 2, 2016, at 7:01 AM, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 11:57:35PM -0700, Xia Hwang wrote:
>>> hi jesse,=20
>>> how about booting ppl for offensive, racist ass posts?
>>=20
>> I have done this on a very few occasions, but only in cases that were real=
> ly extreme and had no conceivable relation to language discussion.
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>> If anyone has an issue with something posted, please let me know backchann=
> el.
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>> Jesse Sheidlower
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