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RE: Riceboy sighting...
Yeah no kidding...
Look, it's simple if y'all look at it this way--if the term you're using
implies condescension in any way, then it's inappropriate.
So, yes, the term "riceboy" IS an inappropriate use of language, but I will
still continue to use it. Call me a fucking bigot--I don't care.
Kevin Ng
97 Jetta GLX Windsor Blue
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chadwick, John/COR/INV [SMTP:jchadwic@ch2m.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 5:13 PM
> To: 'jettaglx@igtc.com'
> Subject: RE: Riceboy sighting...
>
> What is with this list lately? We are starting to end up like the GTI
> list!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrea [mailto:app8@po.cwru.edu]
> Sent: April 28, 2000 2:45 PM
> To: jettaglx@igtc.com
> Subject: RE: Riceboy sighting...
>
>
> In response to your so polite reply, I'd just like to say this. I have
> never seen that phrase in reference to people who drive pimped out cars
> before. It did not offend me personally, I just thought the term
> inappropriate. In regards to some of your specific points:
>
> "I am technically an Asian American myself (you don't get the name "Khan"
> typically otherwise), and think that having a hissy over the term
> "riceboy" or "riceburner" is mental energy best spent considering how to
> tastefully get HP out of your car."
>
> - I am also in fact Asian American, and I do not consider mentioning
> the
> inappropriateness of a certain phrase as a "hissy".
>
> "If you want to call german cars "weinerburners" or call Volvo's
> "iceberg-mobiles", or French cars "baguette-buggies", by all means do so.
> It is a FACT that Germany is known for their sausage, that Sweden is a
> northern European country with significant ice and snow, and that France
> is the origin of French bread that they call baguettes."
>
> - Notice that you don't call the cars "riceburners" or
> "rice-mobiles" or
> "rice-
> buggies". You call them riceBOYS.
>
> a) People who use the term are not rascist.
> b) It is not a racial insult.
>
> - You may not mean it as an insult but who are you to say that
> people
> won't take it as one. There are other opinions in the world besides
> your
> obviously all-
> knowing one.
>
> c) It does draw upon stereotypes, yes, but then so do a lot of things.
>
> - So all those stereotypes are fine since everyone thinks them
> anyway?
> You're an
> original thinker.
>
> f) I'm sorry if your sensibilities were offended
>
> - My sensibilities were not offended, I just felt the term was
> inappropriate.
> The fact that you don't see that makes you offend me.
>
> g) I am unwilling to refer to that kind of car in any other term other
> than "rice". That is my right as free speech, and will continue to do so
> at this, or any time in the future.
>
> - Well, you can obviously say what you want, but what you say shows
> who
> you are.
> I don't think that you're a bigot. But, I think, at this point, a
> person
> of your
> age since I assume you're old enough to drive, would understand if a
> term is
> inappropriate or not, regardless if your intentions are harmful or
> not.
>
> The fact that you got so bothered about this issue shows that you
> obviously
> know the possible racial implications that your chosen term has, so, maybe
> you should think again about it.
>