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"Mark McIntyre" <> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 10:19:28 +0200, in comp.lang.c , "Emmanuel
> Delahaye" <> wrote:
>
>>Mark McIntyre wrote on 02/10/05 :
>>> I imagine it was meant to be a joke.
>>
>>It was not.
>
> How can you possibly know that it wasn't meant to be a joke? As it
> happens I didn't think it was a particularly good joke, but it was
> clearly meant to be humourous.
>
>>> Certainly I don't regard it as racism -
>>
>>To emit a global judgement based on the origin of a person ? It is
>>racism.
No, it's not.

> I don't see any *judgement* in the original post - the judgement was
> made entirely by you.
>
> If I had ten pee for every time someone's characterised scotsmen as
> tight or unintelligible in a humorous moment, I'd be moderately
> wealthy, as Scotsmen go. Does it bother me? No. Do I regard it as
> racism? No.
>
> Racism is when you get beaten up for being the in the wrong pub,
No, it's not.

> for talking to a girl the wrong colour,
No, it's not. Although calling someone 'the wrong color' may be

> or your house gets firebombed
Nope.

> for living in the wrong area,
Nope.

or you get spat on in the bus for having
> a funny accent, or ...
Nope.

> Get a sense of proportion.
Correct yours!

Racism is discrimination based on 'race', hence the term 'racism'.
Please note the difference between 'nationality' and 'race'.

On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:57:19 GMT, in comp.lang.c , "Mark B"
<> wrote:

(I said)
>> Get a sense of proportion.
>Correct yours!

Grin.

>Racism is discrimination based on 'race', hence the term 'racism'.

And all the things I listed were examples of that.
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Emmanuel Delahaye wrote:
> Mark McIntyre wrote on 02/10/05 :
>
>> On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 16:44:59 +0200, in comp.lang.c , "Emmanuel
>> Delahaye" <> wrote:
>>
>>> Bruintje Beer wrote on 01/10/05 :
>>>
>>>> "hokus" <> schreef in bericht
>>>> news:dhemi4$8ql$...
>>>>
>>>>> Jak zapisaæ pêtlê for, aby po ka¿dej iteracji zmienna i1 zwiêksza³a
>>>>> siê o 2, a i2 o 4.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dziêki
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> sounds like you have drunk too much vodka
>>>
>>>
>>> There is a name for that: 'préjugé' or worst, 'racism'. In my
>>> country, it's a crime.
>>
>>
>> I imagine it was meant to be a joke.
>
>
> It was not.
>
>> Certainly I don't regard it as racism -
>
>
> To emit a global judgement based on the origin of a person ? It is racism.
>
> Ok, we are off-topic...
>

Emmanuel, you have it wrong. It is not racist for the English to allude
to the French as (insert insult here). It could be prejudice, a bad
thing or it might be discrimination (an arguably good thing) but most of
France and England share the same race.

Racism, where it exists, is a very different and more dangerous
situation. It is where the immigrant Mullah in Paris considers himself
superior to his French hosts, the old British colonialist discoursing on
the inferiority of the Indian "wogs". That's racism. And Wrong and Ugly.

Commenting lightly on the Irish or Russian proclivity to drink does not
rise to the level of exhibiting racism. Really.

I've heard that the French actually cultivate garden snails as food!
Disgusting! But not racist.

You've said that prejudice and racism are somehow crimes in France. Can
you elaborate? What would a racist have to do to excite the Gendarmerie?
How would anybody (officially) know whether you prejudged something?

My last racist ideas left me in the late 1960's when I discovered that
all people are more alike than they are different, and that all blood is
red and all mother's tears are salt. Racist == Stupid.

--
Joe Wright
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
--- Albert Einstein ---

Joe Wright <> writes:
[...]
> You've said that prejudice and racism are somehow crimes in
> France. Can you elaborate? What would a racist have to do to excite
> the Gendarmerie? How would anybody (officially) know whether you
> prejudged something?

Can you elaborate *somewhere else*, please?

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst- <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
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On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 23:13:02 +0100, Mark McIntyre
<> wrote:

>On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:57:19 GMT, in comp.lang.c , "Mark B"
><> wrote:
>
>(I said)
>>> Get a sense of proportion.
>>Correct yours!
>
>Grin.
>
>>Racism is discrimination based on 'race', hence the term 'racism'.
>
>And all the things I listed were examples of that.

Not to be discriminatory or anything, but in spite of the subject
heading, I think you guys are in the wrong newsgroup.
--
Al Balmer
Balmer Consulting