Re: [Celtic_Pride] Way's posts

[Hironaka <j.hironaka@unesco.org>]

kevin from singapore wrote:

> --- "I am. . . Anonymous" <ktoreed@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > Joe (Hironaka), are French people like this - don't
> > > worry be happy? - I know the
> > > Malays in our country are.
> > >
> >
> > enough of this racist crap, alright?
>
> hello ..., take it easy.
>
> Kevin (I tried email you offline ktoreed@yahoo.com, but mail bounced back. I
> tried to take this type of mail offline)

Kevin, I don't feel that "don't worry, be happy" is racist unless you have an
axe to grind. As for me, I ought to have used a more value-neutral sun and beach
mindset to make the same "don't worry, be happy" point (say Monaco or Malibu
beach). It's the same. One thing I didn't write in my original post is that
Caribbean people are "lazy". I would hope others re-read my original post before
making this bogus accusation.

Now if you happen to be a French civil servant and take offense at being called
"lazy-ass", then you have a point (although if you lived here you would know
this remark has nothing to do with race). I even lumped myself in that
civil-servent category.  If it was just plain not funny or lame, then say so and
I might even agree. But drop the "racist" tag for pete's sake, because it
cheapens the meaning of the word. "I am...Anonymous" is defending a broad
definition of political correctness for the list, and that's fine. I for one
will be careful not to offend him/her in the future.

Joe

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