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> In talk.origins I read this message from "Uncle Davey"
> <noway@jose.com>:
>
> >
> >news:bsu0g4$cqk$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu...
> >> In article <bssusc$r5r$0@pita.alt.net>,
> >> Constance Vigilant <anybodyleft@arthurandersen.com> wrote:
> >> >"Harlequin" <usenet@cox.net> wrote in message
> >> >news:Xns9461A30457C29usenet123mmcablecom@68.12.19.6...
> >> >> Seppo Pietikainen <s.pietikainen_drop@kolumbus.fi> wrote in
> >> >> news:bspckj$eirio$1@ID-137900.news.uni-berlin.de:
> >> >>
> >> >> > Hmm. A thought just occurred to me.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Is it ethical for witch doctors to refer themselves as "Dr."?
> >> >> > If that were the case, Jason might have a point...
> >> >>
> >> >> I asked "Dr." Jason and this is what he said:
> >> >>
> >> >> Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
> >> >> Walla walla, bing bang
> >> >> Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
> >> >> Walla walla, bing bang...
> >> >> Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
> >> >> Walla walla, bing bang
> >> >> Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
> >> >> Walla walla, bing bang
> >> >>
> >> >> One has got to admit that is about as a logical
> >> >> argument for the Earth being ten-thousand years
> >> >> old that one is likely to find.
> >> >
> >> >This is a lie - he didn't say that.
> >> >
> >> >And a racist one also - do you think it is right to depict the
languages
> >of
> >> >Africans in that condescending way?
> >>
> >> What makes you think that he isn't African? Isn't that assumption
> >> a tad....racist?
> >> --
> >> -
> >> -Roger Tang, gwangung@u.washington.edu, Artistic Director PC Theatre
> >> - Editor, Asian American Theatre Revue [NEW URL][Yes, it IS new]
> >> - http://www.aatrevue.com
> >>
> >
> >Good point. If he was an African and chose to take the mickey out of his
own
> >language, then that's his prerogative. You cannot be racist against
> >yourself. I used to have a boss who said the most outrageous things
against
> >the Jews. I said to him, that really upsets me, he said 'why? You're not
> >Jewish'. I said 'It's Antisemitism' he said 'It can't be, I am Jewish'.
> >
> >So on that token, if you want to take the mickey out of the sound of
Chinese
> >by going "ying tong yiddle eye-poh," with your teeth stuck out, then
don't
> >expect anyone to defend you against yourself.
> >
> >Tsai dien.
> >
> >Uncle Davey, hwoff hwoff hwoff hwoff (that was British English, by the
way.
> >I'm allowed to do that.)
> >
> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I heard a speech by
> the late Harvey Milk in which he said something I considered to
> be an anti-Jewish slur. After the speech I went over and spoke to
> him about it; he also said (paraphrasing), "It can't be
> anti-Jewish, I'm Jewish." Not so. It may not have been
> anti-Semitism, but it was certainly insulting to Jews.
>
> Susan Silberstein
>
Hmmn. I really wonder whether this old boss of mine would have cared to
repeat his comments in fromt of the Polish Israeli Friendship Society (of
which he was, oddly enough, on the committee) and then tell them it's ok,
because he's Jewish himself.
He even used to boast that his brother looked so Aryan that he served in the
German Army in the war. I just couldn't get my head around that one.
I sometimes wonder what African Americans make of Blazing Saddles.
Best,
Uncle Davey
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