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- From: jovanovic-nick@cs.yale.edu (Nick Jovanovic)
- Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.politics.elections,alt.rush-limbaugh,talk.politics.misc,talk.rumors
- Subject: Re: Anita Hill to Head EEOC
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 16:13:09 -0500
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- In article <10570@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson) writes:
- >In <1e972eINN1da@SUNED.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU> jovanovic-nick@cs.yale.edu (Nick Jovanovic) writes:
- >
- >|>In article <1992Nov12.171025.2502@galileo.physics.arizona.edu> krueger@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (Ted Krueger) writes:
- >|>>No, we Republifascists have normal families, we like our definition just
- >|>>fine, thank you. You liberoanarchists have your own thing, you want to
- >|>>call it a family and thereby denegrade the meaning of our families.
- >|> ^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >|>It is ironic that you can't use the word you meant, namely denigrate,
- >|>which means *to blacken*. You show your ignorance and racism at the
- >|>same time this way!
- >
- >Come on now Nick.
- >I can't believe that you could knowingly put out such a weak comeback
- >and still walk around with your head held high.
- >
- >First off spelling flames are at best cheap shots. If that was the
- >best you could do, then you should have stayed out.
- >
- >And the crack about racist iundicates to me that you are in danger of
- >losing all rationality. I really doubt that more than a handfull of
- >people even know that one of the meanings of denigrate is "to
- >blacken", I didn't, I had to look it up to be sure.
- >Most people who use denigrate mean "to cast aspersions upon".
- >
- >Unless you can find some better evidence for your charges than what you
- >have presented, you owe Ted an apology.
- >
-
- I apologize for my remarks.
-
- I do not apologize for criticizing someone who says to others, "you want to
- call it a family." My Webster's New World Dictionary has 7 definitions for
- *family*, 2 of which have a combined total of 7 sudefinitions. My other,
- smaller dictionary has 6 definitions for *family*. Amazingly, they both
- agree that one meaning is *all the people living in the same house*, or
- *all those who live in one house*. Thus, the word has a very inclusive
- meaning and I resent someone attempting to Republicanize it.
-
- BTW, I doubt that only a _handful_ of people realize that *denigrate*
- comes from the same Latin root, *niger*, as have *Negro* and *Nigeria*.
-
- -Nick
-
-