darkcooger: Whatever. This discussion is stupid semantics anyway. My definition is not less accurate, nor less technical; it's just different. You acknowledge that mine is the socially accepted use of the word. I prefer to use words as other people will understand them (language itself is a social phenomenon) rather than redefining them and then calling other peoples' uses wrong. That said, we agree that meuse's comments were both ignorant and malevolent, so there's really no sense arguing with each other. Your method sounds useful in that it distinguishes between 'harmless' or non-hostile ignorance and racial hatred, but I would argue that 'non-hostile' racism is still racism because it still implies a world view in which race is viewed as a meaningful way to assign traits to people. Behind the statement 'black people like watermelon' lies a whole set of assumptions that suggest that different races of people think and act alike on some fundamental level. That set of assumptions is what my definition of racism aims to pinpoint, not just cases in which that set of assumptions manifests in a manner that suggests superiority or inferiority of one or more races.
Well yeah, using a razor would hurt like ***** on a burn.
You must live in or near Springfield, MO KJ. anal skin tag removal
I'll say it again, the Liberal Democrats are a British political party. ***** idiot.
That is so annoying, what is worse is there was a kid in my class, when I was in college, that said "and what not" all the time. It was at least 10 times in a 10 minute critique.
So he spent 12 days in China and this is all he could come up with?
"For everything else there's Mastercard" and "Life Takes Visa" seem to be appropriate here if you ask me :)
it should be mentioned that nobody has put out a press release promising those in 2 months like this company has. if the output looks like regular incandescents they would be a good replacement. especially since tons of people don't like the color of the fluorescent or led light bulbs.
And what would the purpose of it be?