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- From: alan@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (Alan R. Weiss)
- Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:31:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.175438.20068@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> ry@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (ryerson.schwark) writes:
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- >Really? Do you think that people stopped using the word 'nigger' because
- >they were carefully marketed to? I don't think so.
- >
- >
- >Ry
- >ry@usl.com
-
- Let me try to understand this: using proper English "him/her"
- and "she/he" is the equivalent to using the improper, scatalogical
- and racist word "nigger."
-
- Is THIS what Mara, and Melinda, and all other sensitized womyn
- think out there (as if aggregates had much meaning in this
- context)? That using proper pronouns == *nigger ?
-
- People stopped using it for a variety of reasons. The Black
- Muslims made it unhip (and, er, unsafe) to do so. There was
- no positive marketing campaign, that's true. Is this to say that
- we should NOT use marketing techniques.
-
- AGAIN, RY, WHAT DO YOU PROPOSE? Give us your best creative thoughts,
- because God knows we have only heard your negativity.
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