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Trying to hold back as much as I can, let me respond........
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sandmann (Moderators; 1220)
Posted on: 02-28-2005 03:44.
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Let me first make clear that I don't find your habit of speaking like a fucking moron cute at all. No matter how many errant apostrophes or pseudo-ironic statements you throw out, you still sound like an idiot. Ahem, now on to the argument.
I'm making a distinction between what actually offends me and what I should be offended by
Well, I'm going to assume that you neither (a) are an overweight, ill-tempered woman nor (b) died in the WTC attacks, so I think it's safe to say that neither of these actually should offend you.
However, were I such a person and I had to choose between feeling sorry for myself because 2'000 people whom I don't care about died four years ago in a city far far away, and feeling sorry for myself because I'm fat, lesbian, and generally rediculous, I'd choose the latter. It's a matter of personal feelings coming before empathy.
What the hell does that even mean? Let me lay it out for you more clearly, though I apologize in advance for the lack of 18th century grammar and high-school verbal gymnastics: the name of the sandwich does not target a VERY specific group of people in a VERY hostile way. Associating a group in the abstract with being overweight != associating a concrete group with being Nazi war criminals responsible for the extermination of millions of human beings.
"Fat Bitch" doesn't refer to anyone specifically but it is a more emotionally charged insult.
Something tells me that people would be just a bit more emotionally charged if the sandwich were called the "Big Fat Loser Nazis Who Died in the WTC Attacks."
It cruelly implies that the person in question is wholly contemptible; it is a slur in the same vein of "nigger".
LOL! I couldn't have phrased my point better myself. I'm just going to assume for the sake of my own amusement that you're talking about the "little Eichmanns" comment, not the "Fat Bitch" sandwiches. After all, which person is more "wholly contemptible:" the 300 pound dude in the plane seat next to you, or a Nazi war criminal? Case closed.
And furthermore, if you equate "fat" more with "nigger" than you do "Nazi," you've got a bigger problem than your inability to prove a coherent point.
"Li'l Eichmann," on t'other hand, only makes negative reference to a bunch of dead people whom we'll've forgotten in twenty years.
Crispus Atticus (sp?) hasn't even been forgotten after hundreds of years; what makes you think that the victims of the WTC attack will be? (I'm not even going to touch on the inappropriateness of your comment).
(They ain't special, folks; let's move on.)
Something tells me that they will be remembered as being more special than some loud-mouthed kid on an internet forum.
However, like I said, in twenty or fifty years no one will care; by then we'll've forgotten we ever did care.
How respectful of you.
I don't think I have much else to say here. This post practically wrote itself.
Edited by sandmann at 2/28/2005 4:10:47 AM
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The fates lead him who will;
Him who won't, they drag.
-Seneca
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